But I've certainly used it to measure the speed of lag. I wish I had some of my old traceroute logs from when sprintnet went out in Chicago. Ping times went down to 1545ms on average, going from Bay City, MI to Saginaw, to Michigan Tech, to Rochester, to Willow Springs, to Atlanta, to St. Louis, to Kansas City to Ft. Worth, to Austin. Those were some well travelled packets.
Nothing used to anger me more than when people would put NON-Lego components in Lego
buildings, cars, etc. It bothered me to no end. Come to think of it, it still does. Grrrrrrr...
Easy there, Fido, I come from a time before Lego people, we had bricks, windows, wheels and lots of the flat pieces. Now I hardly recognize the stuff.
And Geo. Bush Sr. said, "read my lips, no new taxes", and Clinton said, "I did not have sex with that woman", and W. said, "I need to hide all these strategic energy conference notes (which included Cheney and Enron kissing face) and FBI records which could release innocents J. Edgar framed) for national security.
It's called Script Kiddie Job Security. With all the holes in Windows now, imagine the hell they'll be able to play one someone with all their stuff in a standardized database which can be found on every desktop. No thanks.
With the lenient stance of W's DoJ toward Microsoft (probably from a family habit of looking after big oil companies) and Bush being from Texas (by way of New England like Geo. Sr.) I wonder about the 'Longhorn' connection. Play on words?
Reminds me of my days with Skyway and reading some of the comments on tracking wayward shipments.
One shipment from Amazon, back in Oct. though was explained away as all (of 3) books were shipped, however, two were in shrink and the invoice listed three and I had only one tracking number. Amazon's cust serv told me to wait a few days for the other to show up, if it didn't then contact them again. It's basically a standard response that takes nothing the customer says into account. HELLO! One tracking number, One package with 2 of 3, HELLO There should not be a second box! They finally sent out the third book, but with a note that rubbed me the wrong way, "we're sending another copy, if the first one shows up then please contact us so we can determine how best to procede." As if.
Tracking is pretty good, though, particularly with UPS and FedEx. I was working on an EDI package tracking system, to update current status for a web interface, which would merge truck, integrator, and airline tracking info for customers and shippers. Pity it never got finished, it was a fun project.
Actually, it it *not* my "duty" to tell e-businesses that their sites suck.
My voting is done with my dollar. If I can find what I want, I buy it. If I can't, I go somewhere else that can do the job for me.
Sure, cop an attitude. But when you find the places that offer what you want at what you want to pay continue to suck, who's to blame? Without feedback there's no way your e-tailer knows you're unhappy.
That's all the information they need from me. Last time I checked, McDonald's doesn't go "Gee,
nobody complains that the McCrap Burger doesn't sell", they say "Gee, nobody fucking buys the
McCrap Burger - cancel it!".
Actually, local McD's are franchises and they certainly do care. That's how McRib, McPizza, and a lot of the other special items come and go, because people don't buy them or if they do, but want a change then they communicate. Enough communication and it moves up the pipeline. None, and nothing changes.
Than again, I'm also a typical american bastard who feels my time is too important to waste it telling other people how to do their job.
Typical in the sense of complaining but doing nothing about it. You're well on your way to being a curmudgeon.
One of my personal frustrations with some Internet shopping is how terribly some sites are put together.
It is your DUTY to tell e-tailers that their sites suck! If you don't take the time to explain how badly their shopping cart or catalog browsing is, don't complain here. I certainly take the time to let everyone know, in clear descriptive terms how it doesn't work. They've often put a lot of money (or just got suckered for a lot) into building the site or contracting it out and if you don't tell them it's bad, it'll certainly stay bad. Don't feel you're too small a fish for your opinion to matter, it's the one or two church-ladies out there who complain to the paper with a circulation of 700,000 that get a strip dropped because they never got any.
Amazon.co.uk was where I could get the new Pratchett books with the original cover art, instead of the ugly Harper/Torch artwork done, probably by the CotB's nephew
Obscure or out of print books
Shipping has been a problem, tho, with one book taking 3+ weeks to get from Fernley NV to Santa Cruz CA, not the first time they blundered, either, less than impressed with ability to track, tho much of this rests on USPS shoulders as well (it's possible the first was in the wreck of a USPS semi on I-80 about the time the book would have shipped.)
Software is a whole nother animal and with Egghead gone I'm not sure where to order that evil, proprietary, closed-source stuff I occasionally need. Programmer's Paradise? Any others. Amazon does carry software, and just about everything, but Imelda's shoes.
but what'll they do next quarter? i think I've got all the books i need, other than the Salmon of Doubt with will finally be coming out, but heck, I can get that at the local book shop faster...
Perhaps this is why there are patches needed...
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Rob Landley: "Okay everybody, this is getting rediculous."
Rediculous, as opposed to what, greendiculous, bluediculous, PLAIDdiculous?
As my old boss noted, you don't keep all your eggs in one basket. We were three programmers, all specializing in IT aspects at a community college. He forbade us to all go out to lunch in the same car, in the event there was an accident and his IT shop would be severly crippled.
I'm sure Linus is healthy and a good driver, but as misfortune befell a former colleague at another job (her car was parked at a light on the off-ramp which was below the highway, a driver from the other direction suffered a cardiac arrest, crossed the median and opposite lanes and went airborne, landing on her car as she waited for the light to change. Gone, just like that,) unfortunate things happen. It would be very tragic for his wife and child to lose a father. It would be a disaster for Linux, as the unifying person would be gone and in the aftermath someone would have to take control. I imagine Linus has already considered this, but his tight grip on the kernel is a bit worrying. He should delegate more.
Basically everyone is a Master Thespian, with all the overdrama of the old SNL skit with John Lovitz. Except of course, for those rogue people who have reached the 'i-don't-really-give-a-damn-anymore' stage and terrorize the stuffed shirts and newbies alike. Just like IRL, sh_t happens.
The author doesn't get much into the politics online, either. Just imagine the jihad that'd take place if a "Florida" took place in a virtual world. Well, people take out their frustrations on line and get their satisfaction, too. Even if it costs a little money to buy eqz to enhance that. I sold four mech miniatures on ebay a while back for ~$60. Someone's appreciating the intangible value.
I was hooked on online gaming with MUDs, which still entrance a lot of people and chew through hours which could be spent usefully raising children (which some have, but still find time for 4-6 hours online each day.)
Now I find it hard to play games for more than a couple hours a week. Guess it ran its course, now I spend time hiking or bike riding.
It'll be quite interesting to see
what happens as MMORPGs gain popularity and absorb more and more
man hours.
"For today's financial headlines I'll turn it over to Jack Wasco."
"Thanks Jane. Today Subatomic Industries dropped another 5 points as rumors spread of President Farnsworth's influentce in fixing character stats for his son and abuse of power by using the Department of Justice to censor internet chatrooms where fullscale flamewars abound on the matter. The Whitehouse had no comment, but the House Justice Committee and Senate Committee on International RPG's have announced they are launching full scale an investigation.
Blue Ice was up on the NASDAQ for the 3rd day in a row, after their successful rollout of AlwaysWinter, which continues to draw members away from struggling Sirius Synergetics, which has been plagued with internet lag..."
But if they're just trying it out with limited markets and such then why jump the gun? Better they sneak up on it quiet like, work out the kinks then roll it out.
Too damn much of this American -- Gottahavitrightnowgimmegimmegimmeawshititdoesn-
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I had highest bid on (see my ID) a Bill the Cat really big button from someone on eBay and they kept sending excuse email about how they were doing this or that and trying to get caught up (rule 1, in my book, if you don't have time to do it, don't!) after months I recalled that I still hadn't got it nor any further explanations. I looked up the nearest city police department on the web, and they had an email address. I typed up a claim of fraud and cc'd the seller. Got things moving really fast and got my $7.50 button.:)
I've seen that ulterior motive being discussed already. I don't have pointers to the actual documents, but part of the
settlement was for Microsoft to open their protocols except where it had to do with security.
So, in Microsoft's eyes, everything now deals with security.
My word! It's like they have learned from Congress! Scary!
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Small budget? A lot of spring garage sales in your neighborhood? Then you need to read this from Dave Barry.
But I've certainly used it to measure the speed of lag. I wish I had some of my old traceroute logs from when sprintnet went out in Chicago. Ping times went down to 1545ms on average, going from Bay City, MI to Saginaw, to Michigan Tech, to Rochester, to Willow Springs, to Atlanta, to St. Louis, to Kansas City to Ft. Worth, to Austin. Those were some well travelled packets.
Easy there, Fido, I come from a time before Lego people, we had bricks, windows, wheels and lots of the flat pieces. Now I hardly recognize the stuff.
uIP has also been used to run a Commodore 64 as a web server
I suggest he upgrade that server.
Imagine a beowulf cluster that G.I. Joe and Barbie could live in!
Yeah, I'm all ears.
With the lenient stance of W's DoJ toward Microsoft (probably from a family habit of looking after big oil companies) and Bush being from Texas (by way of New England like Geo. Sr.) I wonder about the 'Longhorn' connection. Play on words?
I just knew they were lying about halting new development to make current OS and apps secure. What, me worry?
One shipment from Amazon, back in Oct. though was explained away as all (of 3) books were shipped, however, two were in shrink and the invoice listed three and I had only one tracking number. Amazon's cust serv told me to wait a few days for the other to show up, if it didn't then contact them again. It's basically a standard response that takes nothing the customer says into account. HELLO! One tracking number, One package with 2 of 3, HELLO There should not be a second box! They finally sent out the third book, but with a note that rubbed me the wrong way, "we're sending another copy, if the first one shows up then please contact us so we can determine how best to procede." As if.
Tracking is pretty good, though, particularly with UPS and FedEx. I was working on an EDI package tracking system, to update current status for a web interface, which would merge truck, integrator, and airline tracking info for customers and shippers. Pity it never got finished, it was a fun project.
My voting is done with my dollar. If I can find what I want, I buy it. If I can't, I go somewhere else that can do the job for me.
Sure, cop an attitude. But when you find the places that offer what you want at what you want to pay continue to suck, who's to blame? Without feedback there's no way your e-tailer knows you're unhappy.
That's all the information they need from me. Last time I checked, McDonald's doesn't go "Gee, nobody complains that the McCrap Burger doesn't sell", they say "Gee, nobody fucking buys the McCrap Burger - cancel it!".
Actually, local McD's are franchises and they certainly do care. That's how McRib, McPizza, and a lot of the other special items come and go, because people don't buy them or if they do, but want a change then they communicate. Enough communication and it moves up the pipeline. None, and nothing changes.
Than again, I'm also a typical american bastard who feels my time is too important to waste it telling other people how to do their job.
Typical in the sense of complaining but doing nothing about it. You're well on your way to being a curmudgeon.
Considering the margin of profit, you never know :)
It is your DUTY to tell e-tailers that their sites suck! If you don't take the time to explain how badly their shopping cart or catalog browsing is, don't complain here. I certainly take the time to let everyone know, in clear descriptive terms how it doesn't work. They've often put a lot of money (or just got suckered for a lot) into building the site or contracting it out and if you don't tell them it's bad, it'll certainly stay bad. Don't feel you're too small a fish for your opinion to matter, it's the one or two church-ladies out there who complain to the paper with a circulation of 700,000 that get a strip dropped because they never got any.
Expen$ive programming manuals for ~$12 less
Amazon.co.uk was where I could get the new Pratchett books with the original cover art, instead of the ugly Harper/Torch artwork done, probably by the CotB's nephew
Obscure or out of print books
Shipping has been a problem, tho, with one book taking 3+ weeks to get from Fernley NV to Santa Cruz CA, not the first time they blundered, either, less than impressed with ability to track, tho much of this rests on USPS shoulders as well (it's possible the first was in the wreck of a USPS semi on I-80 about the time the book would have shipped.)
Software is a whole nother animal and with Egghead gone I'm not sure where to order that evil, proprietary, closed-source stuff I occasionally need. Programmer's Paradise? Any others. Amazon does carry software, and just about everything, but Imelda's shoes.
but what'll they do next quarter? i think I've got all the books i need, other than the Salmon of Doubt with will finally be coming out, but heck, I can get that at the local book shop faster...
Rediculous, as opposed to what, greendiculous, bluediculous, PLAIDdiculous?
Ok, ok, I know coders can't spell... ;)
I'm sure Linus is healthy and a good driver, but as misfortune befell a former colleague at another job (her car was parked at a light on the off-ramp which was below the highway, a driver from the other direction suffered a cardiac arrest, crossed the median and opposite lanes and went airborne, landing on her car as she waited for the light to change. Gone, just like that,) unfortunate things happen. It would be very tragic for his wife and child to lose a father. It would be a disaster for Linux, as the unifying person would be gone and in the aftermath someone would have to take control. I imagine Linus has already considered this, but his tight grip on the kernel is a bit worrying. He should delegate more.
Basically everyone is a Master Thespian, with all the overdrama of the old SNL skit with John Lovitz. Except of course, for those rogue people who have reached the 'i-don't-really-give-a-damn-anymore' stage and terrorize the stuffed shirts and newbies alike. Just like IRL, sh_t happens.
The author doesn't get much into the politics online, either. Just imagine the jihad that'd take place if a "Florida" took place in a virtual world. Well, people take out their frustrations on line and get their satisfaction, too. Even if it costs a little money to buy eqz to enhance that. I sold four mech miniatures on ebay a while back for ~$60. Someone's appreciating the intangible value.
Now I find it hard to play games for more than a couple hours a week. Guess it ran its course, now I spend time hiking or bike riding.
"For today's financial headlines I'll turn it over to Jack Wasco."
"Thanks Jane. Today Subatomic Industries dropped another 5 points as rumors spread of President Farnsworth's influentce in fixing character stats for his son and abuse of power by using the Department of Justice to censor internet chatrooms where fullscale flamewars abound on the matter. The Whitehouse had no comment, but the House Justice Committee and Senate Committee on International RPG's have announced they are launching full scale an investigation.
Blue Ice was up on the NASDAQ for the 3rd day in a row, after their successful rollout of AlwaysWinter, which continues to draw members away from struggling Sirius Synergetics, which has been plagued with internet lag..."
Too damn much of this American -- Gottahavitrightnowgimmegimmegimmeawshititdoesn- tworkanditsfullabugsmanyouguysallsucki- mgonnapostnastyaboutyouwiththegoatsecxguyonslashdo t!
I had highest bid on (see my ID) a Bill the Cat really big button from someone on eBay and they kept sending excuse email about how they were doing this or that and trying to get caught up (rule 1, in my book, if you don't have time to do it, don't!) after months I recalled that I still hadn't got it nor any further explanations. I looked up the nearest city police department on the web, and they had an email address. I typed up a claim of fraud and cc'd the seller. Got things moving really fast and got my $7.50 button. :)
GCC also you can pretty much trust to work with AMD and Cyrix CPUs, not that I'm suggesting anyone might get ideas...
settlement was for Microsoft to open their protocols except where it had to do with security.
So, in Microsoft's eyes, everything now deals with security.
My word! It's like they have learned from Congress! Scary!
Just got my weekly FoolWatch letter and saw the opportunity to comment on Auditing and Accounting firms (article) and wonder where one goes to whine about bad patents or trademarks (a very popular /. theme.)