The only idiots yet get these days smoking, are people who obviously don't care about their health at all.
Cheers mate... It's people like you who make me want to stub out my Cigarette out in your eyeball
(I don't consider cigarette smokers logical)
It's not logical it's an addiction. Nothing at all to do with higher brain function Everything to do with a chemically induced feed back loop in the risk/reward part of the brain.
I'm not looking for sympathy or understanding, but you and the pitchfork wielding mob you represent can burn in hell as far as I'm concerned. Smokers have been kicked out of everywhere and it seems that it's now socially acceptable to harass us on the street!
Buggerit... I'm off for a smoke to try and calm down Grrrr
Most modern PC's and laptops will boot from a USB key. If you Buy a 1G+ USB key and copy over the Knoppix CD's bit's n Pieces you can then boot the stick using the ISOLINUX toolset and have room left over for a $HOME.
I bought a 4GB stick and was hoping to get the DVD version on it but I was like 20MB short:(
Still it's a great way to carry round your entire environment with you 3GB is enough for a few docs and most of my e-mail:)
wait until someone starts moralising on the idea of just commandeering a whole planet for experimental purposes. I personally think that it's as good of a laboratory as any
I Agree with you on this.... The limpwristed, leftwing, tree hugging freaks will most certainly jump up and down and scream blue bloody murder if we tried.
The argument will be the old, "Lets learn to take care of --insert favourite cause-- first before doing X" Problem is trying to teraform mars will probably teach us what we need to know to fix our own environment
The other argument will be, "But we have no idea of how to do it". Fact is the only way to learn is to bloody well try! Thats how we learn, Try, fail, try again, fail again.... try, hey limited success this time!
Problem is it's too bloody easy to pick holes in ANY idea to the point where nobody even gives it a go. That's just wrong. In this case mars is in all likely hood a dead rock. It's a perfect laboratory for planetary engineering. Sure let the archaeologists poke around, but lets face it, the chances of finding even fossil records of life on mars is a long shot. We can't not use it simply because sometime in the last 4billion years the MIGHT have been life there./rant
This actually raises an interesting point.... That being, how many 11 year old kids you love to spend quality time playing with a parent? My guess is lots would.
Isn't it weird that kids are still getting quality time with parents online, just not their own.
Ummm.... what planet are you from? The BIOS does NOT start the CPU. When a PC and fact most computers start, the reset pin will trigger the CPU to start executing code at a predetermined memory address. This address is usually hard coded into the CPU hardware. The address it loads and executes is usually the BIOS.
When x86 CPU's boot they are very limited beasts. It's up the the BIOS code to figure out what exact model of CPU it is then enable all the neat extra features, like 32 or 64 bit modes SMP and other goodies.
Comeon guys, this is basic stuff every geek should know. This is something that hasn't really changed for the last 20-40 years or so/me Very disappointed:(
What is the RFID tags had no unique ID in them? Instead a Datablock describing, who made the item what raw products the item contains etc...
Then you could build a 'cheap' sorting unit that recycling centers could use to sort the junk into the appropriate bins for melting back down into raw products
Take a look at http://www.citadel.org/ It as group calendaring etc I believe that there is an outlook plugin on the way works with Kontact. Easy enough to get running.
I got the server up and working in under 2 hours. Sent the next couple of days tweaking it and generally messing about:)
Supports IMAP(s) POP3(s) SMTP(s) groupdav http(s) front end Also has a built in listserv
But just think of the poor bastard who's job it is to transcode Wham's greatest hits to Stone tablets armed with nothing but a BIG pile of stone tables and a drill press:)
alien is a great tool to be sure... But many kernel drivers need to be re-compiled against the currently installed kernels headers.
This means picking apart the.rpm or.deb Fricking around with the source (If it's a binary blob you are usually SOL) compiling the modules and hope like hell it works:)
It doesn't really matter WHICH distro goes on the machine. But once they start delivering Linux on Dell machines the ugly issue of available drivers hopefully goes away...
If Dell were to certify that model xyz comes with Linux pre-installed then I would know that most if not all of the hardware in was supported!
Yes, I will flatten the machine and install the Distro of MY choice. But at least I'll know that the hardware in the box will go.
Note to Dell etc... ------------------- PLEASE supply tar archives of your drivers and source! I'm sick to death of picking apart your bloody RPMs to get what I need:(
I loved that series. The only thing that really bugged me was that I could VERY easily believe that it was close to the truth about politics than anything I'd every seen.
Any Yanks reading this... Go out and buy the DVD's:)
Right now, generally speaking those with faith are thought of as uneducated and unenlightened
Hmmm... Might it have something to do with the extremist loonies Banging on about Intelligent design, Earth only 6000 years old world is really flat etc...
If the moderates keep quiet and only the nut cases get themselves heard... Just what do you think the wider public reaction is going to be?
I've seen just as many Pro religious comments on slashdot as anti. But in general the Atheists 'TEND' to be better behaved and not get into as many flame wars as the Pro crowd (Just my own observations here)
And if you think it easy being an Atheist in this day and age your dead wrong. I don't discuss my beliefs with friends and co-workers anymore... Got sick an tired of all the arguments and other crap that it generated. IMHO people should be free to believe whatever the hell they like. As long as they don't hurt anyone other than themselves:)
Once upon a time ago, in a land far away.... Conquest was a cheapie DOS based VGA game based on the boardgame Risk. The number of Friday nights and beers lost to this game were unreal. Up to seven of us, sharing one PC for several hour straight. I had to replace the mouse every 2-3 months.
Very simple game. Very simple game play. Many happy hours of shouting and cursing as someone destroyed your carefully built armies I think all the beer helped:)
Because a you need a much bigger motor to drive a 100gr platter Lighter platter = smaller motor = lower power usage Less to do with platter friction than with the number/length of windings in the motor itself.
Oi Scurvies,listen to this then It was on the good ship Venus By Christ, you should've seen us The figurehead was a whore in bed And the mast, was a mammoth penis The captain of this lugger He was a dirty f**ker He wasn't fit to shovel shit From one place to another Chorus: Friggin' in the rigging Friggin' in the rigging Friggin' in the rigging There was f*** all else to do The captain's name was Morgan By Christ, he was a gorgon Ten times a day sweet tunes he'd play on his f***ing organ The first mate's name was Cooper By Christ he was a trooper. He jerked and jerked until he worked Himself into a stupor Chorus....... Hold on give it some bollocks,bollocks,bollocks.... The second mate was Andy By Christ, he had a dandy Till they crushed his cock on a jagged rock For cumming in the brandy The cabin boy was Kipper He was a f***ing nipper He stuffed his ass with a broken glass And circumcised the skipper Chorus........ The Captain's wife was Mabel To f*** she was not able So the dirty shits, they nailed her tits Across the bar room table The Captain had a daughter Who fell in deep sea water And invited squeals and milk and eels Had found her sexual quarters Friggin' in the rigging Friggin' in the rigging Friggin' in the rigging There was f**k all else to do..
The Datacentre we have our kit in has these small LED based ammeters on each of the power strips. Very handy for figuring out where our power budget is going.
What utter paranoid bullshit. If you are a lone female in the group all you need to do is to say "I'm off to the pub, who is going to join me?"
If you are the lone male in the group, all you need to do is to say "I'm off to the pub, who is going to join me?"
I've worked in many an IT department, most with a reasonably good male:female mix I've never seen a friendly offer of a few pints rejected, even when the person being invited didn't drink alcohol.
The only thing to remember is not to try and hump their legs once you've had a few pints That will probably land you in trouble, or worse matrimony:)
Just make sure it's a group thing.
One IT shop I worked in, A female co-worker of mine was always instigating Friday night out at the pub. She always got a good crowd together, helped by the fact she was very attractive. Since she left Friday nights at the pub have never been the same:(
Remember people on the whole are social animals and like to included in the group. Just try not to drool to much when making the invite:)
Thats part of the joy of eve:) They even talk about this sort of thing in the glossies Spies, cheats, scams it make the game just that little bit more interesting
Anyone can set up a corporation or alliance. A while back during one war, a spy infiltrated our Corp. He flew with us for over 6 months, He became a close and trusted friend to many of us before cleaning out the Corporation lockers.
Ahh well such is life:)
Betrayal, Intrigue, injustice, Loyalty, Nobility These are things that the game mechanic pretty much leaves alone and good on them too... Make the game that much richer in terms of content, risks and rewards
Maybe thats why most of the people I've meet in game tend to be older that what I suspect would the norm in most MMO's youngest pup I've met is 25, most of the people in our Corp are 30-40 years old
There is a fair bit of CCP generated content... Missions, Mining, Research & development, Manufacturing and Complexes
But by far the most interesting content us player generated There is plenty of scope for Traders, Mercs and Piracy The player generated 'content' is IMHO the more interesting side
The wars, the pirates, the spies, the intrigue:) Every region outside of empire space has it's own history of alliances betrails, victories and defeats. This is history generated by players not CCP It helps that the eve universe is played on one game instance (Actually I believe there is Chinese server cluster now too)
A couple of years ago friends of mine approached me with an investment proposition. Apparently they knew a guy who had invented a perpetual motion machine, it too used magnets They were very very exited, but when I told them that it's basicly impossible... They were heart broken. I suggested they look into Newtons laws etc, if they didn't believe me.
As someone had already mentioned, If this thing really did work, this lot would already be rich. We wouldn't be reading about it in the economist or whatever, we would be reading about them on the front page of $NEW_PAPER. *sigh* This is what happens when you don't have a good basic science education in schools.
Slashdot Mirror
Cheers mate... It's people like you who make me want to stub out my Cigarette out in your eyeball
It's not logical it's an addiction. Nothing at all to do with higher brain function
Everything to do with a chemically induced feed back loop in the risk/reward part of the brain.
I'm not looking for sympathy or understanding, but you and the pitchfork wielding mob you represent
can burn in hell as far as I'm concerned. Smokers have been kicked out of everywhere and it seems that
it's now socially acceptable to harass us on the street!
Buggerit
Grrrr
Most modern PC's and laptops will boot from a USB key.
:(
:)
If you Buy a 1G+ USB key and copy over the Knoppix CD's bit's n Pieces
you can then boot the stick using the ISOLINUX toolset and have room
left over for a $HOME.
I bought a 4GB stick and was hoping to get the DVD version on it but
I was like 20MB short
Still it's a great way to carry round your entire environment with you
3GB is enough for a few docs and most of my e-mail
wait until someone starts moralising on the idea of just commandeering a whole planet for experimental purposes. I personally think that it's as good of a laboratory as any
.... try, hey limited success this time!
/rant
I Agree with you on this.... The limpwristed, leftwing, tree hugging freaks will most certainly jump up and down and
scream blue bloody murder if we tried.
The argument will be the old, "Lets learn to take care of --insert favourite cause-- first before doing X"
Problem is trying to teraform mars will probably teach us what we need to know to fix our own environment
The other argument will be, "But we have no idea of how to do it". Fact is the only way to learn is to bloody well try!
Thats how we learn, Try, fail, try again, fail again
Problem is it's too bloody easy to pick holes in ANY idea to the point where nobody even gives it a go.
That's just wrong. In this case mars is in all likely hood a dead rock. It's a perfect laboratory for
planetary engineering. Sure let the archaeologists poke around, but lets face it, the chances of finding
even fossil records of life on mars is a long shot. We can't not use it simply because sometime in the last 4billion years the MIGHT have been life there.
This actually raises an interesting point....
That being, how many 11 year old kids you love to spend quality time playing with a parent?
My guess is lots would.
Isn't it weird that kids are still getting quality time with parents online, just not their own.
Ummm.... what planet are you from?
/me Very disappointed :(
The BIOS does NOT start the CPU.
When a PC and fact most computers start, the reset pin will trigger the CPU
to start executing code at a predetermined memory address. This address is usually hard coded
into the CPU hardware. The address it loads and executes is usually the BIOS.
When x86 CPU's boot they are very limited beasts. It's up the the BIOS code to figure out
what exact model of CPU it is then enable all the neat extra features, like 32 or 64 bit modes
SMP and other goodies.
Comeon guys, this is basic stuff every geek should know.
This is something that hasn't really changed for the last 20-40 years or so
What is the RFID tags had no unique ID in them?
Instead a Datablock describing, who made the item
what raw products the item contains etc...
Then you could build a 'cheap' sorting unit that recycling centers could
use to sort the junk into the appropriate bins for melting back down into raw products
Simple example...
Glass here, Plastic here, Metals here, etc...
MOST of the stuff that goes into landfills can be recycled one way or another.
the rest in generally organic anyway so composting it isn't too hard.
Take a look at http://www.citadel.org/
:)
It as group calendaring etc
I believe that there is an outlook plugin on the way
works with Kontact. Easy enough to get running.
I got the server up and working in under 2 hours.
Sent the next couple of days tweaking it and generally messing about
Supports
IMAP(s)
POP3(s)
SMTP(s)
groupdav
http(s) front end
Also has a built in listserv
I've found it to be very cool
Hehe...
:)
But just think of the poor bastard who's job it is to transcode
Wham's greatest hits to Stone tablets armed with nothing but a BIG
pile of stone tables and a drill press
Stone tablets. Just drill a hole for a zero and your away and laughing :)
Now we just need a large enough area to store them
alien is a great tool to be sure...
.rpm or .deb :)
But many kernel drivers need to be re-compiled against
the currently installed kernels headers.
This means picking apart the
Fricking around with the source (If it's a binary blob you are usually SOL)
compiling the modules and hope like hell it works
It doesn't really matter WHICH distro goes on the machine.
:(
But once they start delivering Linux on Dell machines the
ugly issue of available drivers hopefully goes away...
If Dell were to certify that model xyz comes with Linux pre-installed
then I would know that most if not all of the hardware in was supported!
Yes, I will flatten the machine and install the Distro of MY choice.
But at least I'll know that the hardware in the box will go.
Note to Dell etc...
-------------------
PLEASE supply tar archives of your drivers and source!
I'm sick to death of picking apart your bloody RPMs to get what I need
You too huh? :)
I twitch everytime I see a laser pointer now
Fscking sysadmin is always restoring the MCP from tape after I rm it
I loved that series.
:)
The only thing that really bugged me was that
I could VERY easily believe that it was close to the truth
about politics than anything I'd every seen.
Any Yanks reading this...
Go out and buy the DVD's
Right now, generally speaking those with faith are thought of as uneducated and unenlightened
:)
Hmmm... Might it have something to do with the extremist loonies
Banging on about Intelligent design, Earth only 6000 years old
world is really flat etc...
If the moderates keep quiet and only the nut cases get themselves heard...
Just what do you think the wider public reaction is going to be?
I've seen just as many Pro religious comments on slashdot as anti.
But in general the Atheists 'TEND' to be better behaved and not get into
as many flame wars as the Pro crowd (Just my own observations here)
And if you think it easy being an Atheist in this day and age your dead wrong.
I don't discuss my beliefs with friends and co-workers anymore...
Got sick an tired of all the arguments and other crap that it generated.
IMHO people should be free to believe whatever the hell they like.
As long as they don't hurt anyone other than themselves
Once upon a time ago, in a land far away....
:)
5 4
Conquest was a cheapie DOS based VGA game based on the boardgame Risk.
The number of Friday nights and beers lost to this game were unreal.
Up to seven of us, sharing one PC for several hour straight.
I had to replace the mouse every 2-3 months.
Very simple game. Very simple game play.
Many happy hours of shouting and cursing as someone destroyed your carefully built armies
I think all the beer helped
http://www.bluechillies.com/register.html?sid=139
http://www.windowsgames.co.uk/conquest.html
Ummm ... not to nit pick, but :)
That would not be a revolving door either!
That would be a human sized blender
And probably not a bad idea!
But technically, if the door is in "straight through" mode :)
It is no longer a revolving door... No?
Because a you need a much bigger motor to drive a 100gr platter
Lighter platter = smaller motor = lower power usage
Less to do with platter friction than with the number/length
of windings in the motor itself.
Sex Pistols 4TW!
Oi Scurvies,listen to this then
It was on the good ship Venus
By Christ, you should've seen us
The figurehead was a whore in bed
And the mast, was a mammoth penis
The captain of this lugger
He was a dirty f**ker
He wasn't fit to shovel shit
From one place to another
Chorus:
Friggin' in the rigging
Friggin' in the rigging
Friggin' in the rigging
There was f*** all else to do
The captain's name was Morgan
By Christ, he was a gorgon
Ten times a day sweet tunes he'd play on his f***ing organ
The first mate's name was Cooper
By Christ he was a trooper.
He jerked and jerked until he worked
Himself into a stupor
Chorus.......
Hold on give it some bollocks,bollocks,bollocks....
The second mate was Andy
By Christ, he had a dandy
Till they crushed his cock on a jagged rock
For cumming in the brandy
The cabin boy was Kipper
He was a f***ing nipper
He stuffed his ass with a broken glass
And circumcised the skipper
Chorus........
The Captain's wife was Mabel
To f*** she was not able
So the dirty shits, they nailed her tits
Across the bar room table
The Captain had a daughter
Who fell in deep sea water
And invited squeals and milk and eels
Had found her sexual quarters
Friggin' in the rigging
Friggin' in the rigging
Friggin' in the rigging
There was f**k all else to do..
The Datacentre we have our kit in has these small LED based ammeters on each of the power strips.
E nergy_Devices.html?gclid=CJ2il5S3r4cCFTpsEAod3n1L- Q8 3,1324,1328&mid=4084
:)
Very handy for figuring out where our power budget is going.
Google provides the following in quick order
http://www.energyoptimizersdirect.co.uk/acatalog/
http://www.blackbox.com/Catalog/Detail.aspx?cid=1
Enjoy
What utter paranoid bullshit.
:)
:(
:)
If you are a lone female in the group all you need to do is to say
"I'm off to the pub, who is going to join me?"
If you are the lone male in the group, all you need to do is to say
"I'm off to the pub, who is going to join me?"
I've worked in many an IT department, most with a reasonably good male:female mix
I've never seen a friendly offer of a few pints rejected, even when the person being
invited didn't drink alcohol.
The only thing to remember is not to try and hump their legs once you've had a few pints
That will probably land you in trouble, or worse matrimony
Just make sure it's a group thing.
One IT shop I worked in, A female co-worker of mine was always instigating Friday night
out at the pub. She always got a good crowd together, helped by the fact she was very attractive.
Since she left Friday nights at the pub have never been the same
Remember people on the whole are social animals and like to included in the group.
Just try not to drool to much when making the invite
Send him to Singapore and have him canned5 0914F7385B0C718CDDAD0894DC494D81&n=Top%2FReference %2FTimes%20Topics%2FSubjects%2FV%2FVandalism :)
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F
That would fix his little red wagon
Thats part of the joy of eve :)
:)
:)
They even talk about this sort of thing in the glossies
Spies, cheats, scams it make the game just that little bit more interesting
Anyone can set up a corporation or alliance.
A while back during one war, a spy infiltrated our Corp.
He flew with us for over 6 months, He became a close and trusted friend to many of us
before cleaning out the Corporation lockers.
Ahh well such is life
Betrayal, Intrigue, injustice, Loyalty, Nobility
These are things that the game mechanic pretty much leaves alone
and good on them too... Make the game that much richer in terms
of content, risks and rewards
Maybe thats why most of the people I've meet in game tend to be older
that what I suspect would the norm in most MMO's
youngest pup I've met is 25, most of the people in our Corp are 30-40 years old
There is a fair bit of CCP generated content...
Missions, Mining, Research & development, Manufacturing and Complexes
But by far the most interesting content us player generated
There is plenty of scope for Traders, Mercs and Piracy
The player generated 'content' is IMHO the more interesting side
The wars, the pirates, the spies, the intrigue
Every region outside of empire space has it's own history of alliances
betrails, victories and defeats. This is history generated by players not CCP
It helps that the eve universe is played on one game instance
(Actually I believe there is Chinese server cluster now too)
Agreed...
:)
A couple of years ago friends of mine approached me with an investment proposition.
Apparently they knew a guy who had invented a perpetual motion machine, it too used magnets
They were very very exited, but when I told them that it's basicly impossible...
They were heart broken. I suggested they look into Newtons laws etc, if they didn't
believe me.
As someone had already mentioned, If this thing really did work, this lot would already be rich.
We wouldn't be reading about it in the economist or whatever, we would be reading about them on the front page
of $NEW_PAPER.
*sigh*
This is what happens when you don't have a good basic science education in schools.
Dreams are still free though
I totally and fully support the underwear ban on all flights :)
Especially for the ladies...
Those underwire bra's can be lethal