You don't have to reboot to change your IP in Windows 98. All you have to do is go to Control Panel --> Network, set your new TCP/IP values and then go to System --> Device Manager --> Disable your NIC --> Enable your NIC --> Your done. I assume this works in '95, but I don't think I have tried it. I was too busy playing FreeBSD - pretty much missed '95 all together.
Sounds like the terrorists are winning. You see, a lot of these terrorists come from dictatorship/police state type locations from around the world. Their fed up, and they are tired of other nations imposing their will on them. So what do they do? They pull little stunts, like what we've been seeing on TV, to make those nations police and regulate their OWN citizens. The people of the UK are supposedly "not afraid," but their government appears to be.
I agree, I really don't get why we even have time zones - they really aren't necessary. In Canada, we could go to work at 10:00am in the winter and 8:00am in the summer - we don't need to change the clocks, we just get up and do things at different times.
I definitely would rather have more hours in the winter though. I really hate getting up in the morning (dark), working all day (gets light out later in the morning... I've already been at work for several hours in the dark). Then I get to watch the sun go down while I'm still at work, and drive home when its completely dark. It gets depressing quickly.. not seeing the sun for more than a few minutes per day.
Yeah VDSL2, ADSL2+, etc, etc exist right now, and there are a lot of DSLAMs that support the new standards. The reason why they weren't magically rolled out as soon as they were released is because there weren't a lot of decent modems that made use of the new chipsets - also, everything cost a lot of $$$$. There are now more choices and so you will see ISPs rolling them out. We are rolling out ADSL2+/VDSL shortly with new Occam gear, but there is no way we would have done that in '04. I imagine this Finland service is a new DOCSIS 3.0-based service. S.Korea and Japan have been able to get mega speeds because they deployed fibre early on (at least that's what I understand they did). Americans ran copper and Japan ran fibre. Now they have a more capable infrastructure. This isn't possible in the USA at this time, as the required funds would be astronomical - and you guys piss away too much money on military anyway (haha, sorry, had to take a dig at that one..).
I really don't know why we can't get better upstream speeds (not as a customer, but as an ISP). It doesn't cost a lot to update from 1Gbps pipes to 10Gbps pipes. It should soon be quite normal for small ISPs to have 2Gbps instead of a few hundred Mbps.
Yeah but if more and more content becomes Akamaized (or something similar), then a lot of the main download sites will be blazing fast, and won't use the upstream provider. Ofcourse this will only help for big sites at the present time, but common downloads won't be leaving the ISP. Using boxes like Akamai to download large quantities on one large central server make sense until every ISP can have 20Gbps backbone connections. We just put in a new 10Gbps backbone to replace our existing 1Gbps, but we only a few hundred Mbps to the Internet.
IMO, massive agriculture began because cities became the way of life as opposed to tribes and small groups of people. Now that we have cities, you have an obscenely dense area of pigs, for example. Now, thats all fine and dandy except that pigs cause a massive amount of air pollution around them. They also shit a lot. The inexperienced say "Great! Use all that shit as fertilizer for better crops!" Well, there is a problem with that. In many places, there is too much pig shit. So what happens? Pigs shit runs into the water table, and into streams, which go into rivers, and then into lakes. I live in Southern Ontario, and you used to be able to swim in the rivers and Great Lakes. Now, any time after it has rained, you can't go in the water for many days due to very high levels of E-Coli.
This is the case with a lot of farms around the world. It's not so bad that we are eating all of these animals (im not sure how I feel about it actually), but we definitely aren't doing it in the "right" way (read: eco-friendly).
As for the previous poster that was trying to make a claim for animals by mentioning that we have to kill a lot of animals in order to have a huge pasture full of soybeans.. well that's a pretty stupid post, IMO.
We have to clear pastures for a LOT of crops, and the reason why we have these dense areas of clear-cut forests-turned-crops is because of the cities. Cities are completely unsustainable. They can't function on their own. Anyone in the country can grow their own food on their own land, and share with others. Also, you killed a bunch of animals clearing out those forests to make pasture for your cows. Now you are wasting a fucklot more land on cows than for fruits and veggies. Another downside is that animals don't help to filter out the air like plants/trees do, but they do cause a lot of pollution.
As of 1345 Royal London Hospital dealt with 208 casualties, 26 of which had been admitted. At the moment 13 are being operated on and three are in intensive care.
Placing the onus of securing their property on the victims, and the even more idiotic assumption that if it wasn't 100% physically impossible to get on it, then everyone's _invited_ in, is not how the real world ever work
What if you cut it off, and tied wire around the wrist really tight to force the remaining blood into the palm? You could squeeze the wrist to pump up the veins.. yeah, I'm a hacker (pun intended).
And like... plant more trees? It's not just our increase in carbon, its also the fact that we have eliminated a large portion of the planets ability to take in the carbon and exchange it for oxygen.
Yeah and by clear-cutting so many forests for more farmland, we aren't taking as much carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. We should be more concerned about the lack of soil quality and forests as opposed to just global warming. Typical idiotic thing to do would be to recognize that we have a problem, but try to build some mammothly exepensive device to try and fix it, as opposed to changing our habits around. I don't need science to tell me that we are fucking over the planet.
Well I feel pretty free in Canada, and I don't have to join the armed forces. Heck, we barely have any armed forces. You know what? We aren't actively defending our country because the "terrorists aren't out to get us" either. I am one man living my life. I don't need to train for combat to fight evil forces. I would rather work and donate extra money, or proactively help people instead of strapping on my guns. It's great that you learned respect and a hard work ethic from being in the military. I learned these things in general society. People who fight, who prepare to fight, especially when they want to fight to prevent fighting, are the cause of most of the problems in the world. Everyone fights because they think their view is right and the other is wrong. Nobody does anything they don't feel is justified. Until everyone stops, there won't be peace. Joining the military is a waste of a life, IMO. This rant would have been more thought out, but I have a conference call - good day.
haha, I'm not saying I'm a hothead. What I was trying to relate to is when I talk to newbie users and I try to explain how different parts of software and hardware "talk to eachother." I try to explain the bigger picture so people can get an idea of the way the system works. When people constantly cut me off, don't want to listen, and just ask for a 3-step process to memorize, then I get frustrated. I get frustrated at that persons lack of wanting to learn, not at dishing out the 3-step process. When that same user keeps calling back whining about the same thing, and I try to explain the situation again, only to find the same responses, then I get angry. I don't think I'm alone in this.
I'm not saying I get pissed off if someone doesn't explain a topic to me exactly how I want it explained. Life can be frustrating, and its easier to lose your patience when you can relate to less and less people. When your at a lower skill level (in anything), there are a whack of people to gain insights from. Once you reach a certain level, those insights are fewer and fewer, and almost everyone can tell you things you already know, and have heard more than several times.
That's all I'm saying... and yeah, life is pretty much a warm and fuzzy time for me;)
I agree, Theo is a very intelligent guy and I think he is just trying to bring people up to his level. I have had a few discussions with him. I can see how people could just dismiss him as a pissed off a**hole, but then I found out that he is very similar to me. He is passionate about his software/movement, and he does a great job with OpenBSD. I find his personality very similar to mine when I am explaining problems to inexperienced users. I don't just give them a 3 step process, I explain what is wrong with the current siutation and why/how to move to a different solution to improve their experience. A lot of people don't want to hear this, they just want a cookie-cutter response in 30 words or less. A lot of the passion that Theo expresses might come off as anger, but really he is trying to drill better values/ways of thinking into peoples heads. He's a cool guy, but like me, he loses his patience when people can't relate to him on his level. The first UNIX I ever used was OpenBSD 2.1, and I would have to say that it was the best exerience I have had with computers/servers/networks. Somehow I lost those values when I wanted a unix-like OS with a flashy desktop. Linux had more driver support, so I switched. Now, IMO, Linux is getting slow and bloated, and is a lot more messy than obsd. I think I'm going to start migrating some of my work machines to OpenBSD. I've missed the last few years and want to see how far they have come. Long live Theo, that crazy coding canuck.
... This guy is trying to get a REAL patent in the USA? I thought you could only get useless/absurd patents in the USA. Patenting a new system that lets you breathe under water? Puhleeeze. If he patented swimming, THEN I could see him getting the patent, but new technology? Get out of here.
I don't know, that sounds like an idiotic way to purchase/sell something. I read the stacks of whitepapers, tech specs, etc. I call previous customers and ask them about the company. I get demos of hardware to play with. I look at the financials of the company, etc. Salesman shouldn't have to make you trust them based on nothing other than their attitude/personality. They should be able to show you their track record and their superior product, and then say "go out and fine something better, I dare you." Those are the salesman I enjoy working with. I couldn't give two shits about the salesman in the end. You deal with the salesman for a little while, go out to lunches, etc. Then you are stuck with the PRODUCT - that's why I focus on the product and ignore half the things that the salesman is blurting out. Hopefully your not at salesman, as there are probably a lot of things going on that your unaware of.
Yeah, the next service that should come out is Speech-to-Text over cellphones. That way, even if you can't hear me, my message is spelled out on a scrolling screen for you to read at your own pace. You can talk back and I can see your text on my screen. I *never* use text messages. They are a waste of time and money. I receive text messages all the time, but that is just my network monitoring box letting me know whats up. Bell Canada lets you receive free text messages anyway, so it doesn't rack up my bill when something on the network fucks up and I get 60 text messages in 5 minutes.
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"...this uses water and fuel (the bulkiest of the supplies) as additional shielding"
mmmmmm... Cancer Water.
Where can I get some? This cigarette is making me thirsty!
You don't have to reboot to change your IP in Windows 98. All you have to do is go to Control Panel --> Network, set your new TCP/IP values and then go to System --> Device Manager --> Disable your NIC --> Enable your NIC --> Your done. I assume this works in '95, but I don't think I have tried it. I was too busy playing FreeBSD - pretty much missed '95 all together.
Sounds like the terrorists are winning. You see, a lot of these terrorists come from dictatorship/police state type locations from around the world. Their fed up, and they are tired of other nations imposing their will on them. So what do they do? They pull little stunts, like what we've been seeing on TV, to make those nations police and regulate their OWN citizens. The people of the UK are supposedly "not afraid," but their government appears to be.
I agree, I really don't get why we even have time zones - they really aren't necessary. In Canada, we could go to work at 10:00am in the winter and 8:00am in the summer - we don't need to change the clocks, we just get up and do things at different times.
I definitely would rather have more hours in the winter though. I really hate getting up in the morning (dark), working all day (gets light out later in the morning... I've already been at work for several hours in the dark). Then I get to watch the sun go down while I'm still at work, and drive home when its completely dark. It gets depressing quickly.. not seeing the sun for more than a few minutes per day.
Yeah VDSL2, ADSL2+, etc, etc exist right now, and there are a lot of DSLAMs that support the new standards. The reason why they weren't magically rolled out as soon as they were released is because there weren't a lot of decent modems that made use of the new chipsets - also, everything cost a lot of $$$$. There are now more choices and so you will see ISPs rolling them out. We are rolling out ADSL2+/VDSL shortly with new Occam gear, but there is no way we would have done that in '04. I imagine this Finland service is a new DOCSIS 3.0-based service. S.Korea and Japan have been able to get mega speeds because they deployed fibre early on (at least that's what I understand they did). Americans ran copper and Japan ran fibre. Now they have a more capable infrastructure. This isn't possible in the USA at this time, as the required funds would be astronomical - and you guys piss away too much money on military anyway (haha, sorry, had to take a dig at that one..).
I really don't know why we can't get better upstream speeds (not as a customer, but as an ISP). It doesn't cost a lot to update from 1Gbps pipes to 10Gbps pipes. It should soon be quite normal for small ISPs to have 2Gbps instead of a few hundred Mbps.
Yeah but if more and more content becomes Akamaized (or something similar), then a lot of the main download sites will be blazing fast, and won't use the upstream provider. Ofcourse this will only help for big sites at the present time, but common downloads won't be leaving the ISP. Using boxes like Akamai to download large quantities on one large central server make sense until every ISP can have 20Gbps backbone connections. We just put in a new 10Gbps backbone to replace our existing 1Gbps, but we only a few hundred Mbps to the Internet.
Not cool.
How Would You Move Mount Fuji
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The power of Christ!
IMO, massive agriculture began because cities became the way of life as opposed to tribes and small groups of people. Now that we have cities, you have an obscenely dense area of pigs, for example. Now, thats all fine and dandy except that pigs cause a massive amount of air pollution around them. They also shit a lot. The inexperienced say "Great! Use all that shit as fertilizer for better crops!" Well, there is a problem with that. In many places, there is too much pig shit. So what happens? Pigs shit runs into the water table, and into streams, which go into rivers, and then into lakes. I live in Southern Ontario, and you used to be able to swim in the rivers and Great Lakes. Now, any time after it has rained, you can't go in the water for many days due to very high levels of E-Coli.
This is the case with a lot of farms around the world. It's not so bad that we are eating all of these animals (im not sure how I feel about it actually), but we definitely aren't doing it in the "right" way (read: eco-friendly).
As for the previous poster that was trying to make a claim for animals by mentioning that we have to kill a lot of animals in order to have a huge pasture full of soybeans.. well that's a pretty stupid post, IMO.
We have to clear pastures for a LOT of crops, and the reason why we have these dense areas of clear-cut forests-turned-crops is because of the cities. Cities are completely unsustainable. They can't function on their own. Anyone in the country can grow their own food on their own land, and share with others. Also, you killed a bunch of animals clearing out those forests to make pasture for your cows. Now you are wasting a fucklot more land on cows than for fruits and veggies. Another downside is that animals don't help to filter out the air like plants/trees do, but they do cause a lot of pollution.
It's not an *exact* dupe of THIS ONE you idiots. See, the old article was in Hardware, where as this one is in YRO. Completely different...
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As of 1345 Royal London Hospital dealt with 208 casualties, 26 of which had been admitted. At the moment 13 are being operated on and three are in intensive care.
Placing the onus of securing their property on the victims, and the even more idiotic assumption that if it wasn't 100% physically impossible to get on it, then everyone's _invited_ in, is not how the real world ever work
That's how America was founded wasn't it?
What if you cut it off, and tied wire around the wrist really tight to force the remaining blood into the palm? You could squeeze the wrist to pump up the veins.. yeah, I'm a hacker (pun intended).
Yeah well we won't have the oil by then to make the solar panels.... it'll all be gone long before this "ring" idea ever gets started.
And like... plant more trees? It's not just our increase in carbon, its also the fact that we have eliminated a large portion of the planets ability to take in the carbon and exchange it for oxygen.
And sunlight is useful for so many things
The sun gives us *everything,* not just "so many things."
The idea of blocking out the sun is ridiculous.
Yeah and by clear-cutting so many forests for more farmland, we aren't taking as much carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. We should be more concerned about the lack of soil quality and forests as opposed to just global warming. Typical idiotic thing to do would be to recognize that we have a problem, but try to build some mammothly exepensive device to try and fix it, as opposed to changing our habits around. I don't need science to tell me that we are fucking over the planet.
Well I feel pretty free in Canada, and I don't have to join the armed forces. Heck, we barely have any armed forces. You know what? We aren't actively defending our country because the "terrorists aren't out to get us" either. I am one man living my life. I don't need to train for combat to fight evil forces. I would rather work and donate extra money, or proactively help people instead of strapping on my guns. It's great that you learned respect and a hard work ethic from being in the military. I learned these things in general society. People who fight, who prepare to fight, especially when they want to fight to prevent fighting, are the cause of most of the problems in the world. Everyone fights because they think their view is right and the other is wrong. Nobody does anything they don't feel is justified. Until everyone stops, there won't be peace. Joining the military is a waste of a life, IMO. This rant would have been more thought out, but I have a conference call - good day.
Your totally correct. You just misunderstood my post - probably my fault. I try to learn from as many people as I can, day in and day out.
(sorry, hit submit by mistake....)
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haha, I'm not saying I'm a hothead. What I was trying to relate to is when I talk to newbie users and I try to explain how different parts of software and hardware "talk to eachother." I try to explain the bigger picture so people can get an idea of the way the system works. When people constantly cut me off, don't want to listen, and just ask for a 3-step process to memorize, then I get frustrated. I get frustrated at that persons lack of wanting to learn, not at dishing out the 3-step process. When that same user keeps calling back whining about the same thing, and I try to explain the situation again, only to find the same responses, then I get angry. I don't think I'm alone in this.
I'm not saying I get pissed off if someone doesn't explain a topic to me exactly how I want it explained.
Life can be frustrating, and its easier to lose your patience when you can relate to less and less people. When your at a lower skill level (in anything), there are a whack of people to gain insights from. Once you reach a certain level, those insights are fewer and fewer, and almost everyone can tell you things you already know, and have heard more than several times.
That's all I'm saying... and yeah, life is pretty much a warm and fuzzy time for me
I agree, Theo is a very intelligent guy and I think he is just trying to bring people up to his level. I have had a few discussions with him. I can see how people could just dismiss him as a pissed off a**hole, but then I found out that he is very similar to me. He is passionate about his software/movement, and he does a great job with OpenBSD. I find his personality very similar to mine when I am explaining problems to inexperienced users. I don't just give them a 3 step process, I explain what is wrong with the current siutation and why/how to move to a different solution to improve their experience. A lot of people don't want to hear this, they just want a cookie-cutter response in 30 words or less. A lot of the passion that Theo expresses might come off as anger, but really he is trying to drill better values/ways of thinking into peoples heads. He's a cool guy, but like me, he loses his patience when people can't relate to him on his level. The first UNIX I ever used was OpenBSD 2.1, and I would have to say that it was the best exerience I have had with computers/servers/networks. Somehow I lost those values when I wanted a unix-like OS with a flashy desktop. Linux had more driver support, so I switched. Now, IMO, Linux is getting slow and bloated, and is a lot more messy than obsd. I think I'm going to start migrating some of my work machines to OpenBSD. I've missed the last few years and want to see how far they have come. Long live Theo, that crazy coding canuck.
... This guy is trying to get a REAL patent in the USA? I thought you could only get useless/absurd patents in the USA. Patenting a new system that lets you breathe under water? Puhleeeze. If he patented swimming, THEN I could see him getting the patent, but new technology? Get out of here.
I don't know, that sounds like an idiotic way to purchase/sell something. I read the stacks of whitepapers, tech specs, etc. I call previous customers and ask them about the company. I get demos of hardware to play with. I look at the financials of the company, etc. Salesman shouldn't have to make you trust them based on nothing other than their attitude/personality. They should be able to show you their track record and their superior product, and then say "go out and fine something better, I dare you." Those are the salesman I enjoy working with. I couldn't give two shits about the salesman in the end. You deal with the salesman for a little while, go out to lunches, etc. Then you are stuck with the PRODUCT - that's why I focus on the product and ignore half the things that the salesman is blurting out. Hopefully your not at salesman, as there are probably a lot of things going on that your unaware of.
Yeah, the next service that should come out is Speech-to-Text over cellphones. That way, even if you can't hear me, my message is spelled out on a scrolling screen for you to read at your own pace. You can talk back and I can see your text on my screen. I *never* use text messages. They are a waste of time and money. I receive text messages all the time, but that is just my network monitoring box letting me know whats up. Bell Canada lets you receive free text messages anyway, so it doesn't rack up my bill when something on the network fucks up and I get 60 text messages in 5 minutes.
...it was rather annoying when you had redundant power supplies but an intern tripping over a power cable could (and did!) bring down a box.
Tip: Don't leave your power cords running along the floor.