I use backblaze http://www.backblaze.com/ for off-site backups. $50/year for unlimited storage is more than reasonable. I currently have about 2.5TB backed up there.
This was true when the dollar coin was replaced. The replacement had to have the same dimensions and weight. But, show me a vending machine that accepts pennies...
I've been getting significantly MORE spam in the last month. I would assume that they base their metrics on how much spam was caught and identified. Since apparently more is getting through to me now, the article should really be titled "Significant Decline of Spam DETECTION".
I see a lot of people complaining that it's not a REAL workout, or it's just a gimmick. Knowing that the Wii Fit is sold out almost everywhere, how many of you have actually tried it?
I own a Wii Fit. I've been using it for 5 days now. Not a workout, my ass! Maybe if you only do the balance games, or maybe if you only consider a workout to be doing weightlifting. I've been doing the cardio games (Hula Hoop, Stepping, Running), and I end each session out of breath and sweating. No, a single 2 minute stepping series on the starter level doesn't wear me out. 30 minutes of rotating between the 3 exercises in the more advanced mode (which you only get after having done them for 30 minutes...I think. Regardless, they are an unlockable you wouldn't see the first time you tried) will have your heart rate up just as effectively as the same amount of time on your average exercise bike or elliptical trainer.
Would I lose any more weight if I drove 30 minutes to the nearest gym, paid the equivelent of a used car payment in membership fees every month, and used machines covered in somebody else's sweat? I doubt it. More importantly, I wouldn't bother, so I wouldn'get get ANY exercise. Walking into my living room and turning on the TV seems to have a much lower barrier to entry, so I can't easily make excuses for why I can't work out today.
While I basically agree with what you are saying, "stupider" is in fact a word.
adj. stupider, stupidest Slow to learn or understand; obtuse. Tending to make poor decisions or careless mistakes. Marked by a lack of intelligence or care; foolish or careless: a stupid mistake. Dazed, stunned, or stupefied. Pointless; worthless: a stupid job.
Citations:
American Psychological Association (APA): stupider. (n.d.). The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Retrieved December 06, 2007, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/stupider Chicago Manual Style (CMS): stupider. Dictionary.com. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/stupider (accessed: December 06, 2007). Modern Language Association (MLA): "stupider." The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. 06 Dec. 2007. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/stupider>.
In theory, HDMA makes this even easier than your three little RCA jacks. One plug does everything. It really couldn't be any more simple. Unfortunately, some people cut corners and managed to screw it up.
We moved all of our servers to VMware virtual machines. Now we back them all up every night, some of them we even back up multiple times a day. We tried esxRanger first, but it took too long (back up of all of the VMs took 4 days) and used too much space. Then we moved to esXpress, which does differential backups of VMs, so it is MUCH faster and uses MUCH less space. We keep 30 days worth of backups online, but once a week we cut tapes of the monthly full and that week's differentials and ship it off-site.
The beauty of VM backups is that it is a backup of the entire system. You restore it and power on and you are running. You don't have to install an OS first and then the agent, and then restore a tape over the fresh OS install and hope it works.
Restores take exactly as much time as it takes you to read the data off of tape/disk. Once it is done reading/writing you just turn it on. Talk about your easy DR. However, for workstations this won't fly, but you really shouldn't be keeping anything important on workstations, that's why you have servers. We treat workstations as an interchangeable part. You log into any workstation with your credentials and you see your desktop/files/settings/etc, since they are all actually on the server. Our Windows workstations achieve this with roaming profiles and our Linux/UNIX workstations do it with NFS mounted home directories.
We use mToken on some WinCE devices as the office after reviewing I don't know how many terminal applications. It seems to work well, and was the only one we found that sends the xterm mouse events when you click on the screen (which we needed for our app).
Never thought I'd be saying this, but have you looked at Novell lately? I recently got pulled in to be the Linux consultant on a classic Netware to Novell Linux (SuSE) migration. eDirectory/Identity Manager are really nice.
If i could pay a programer 1 USD an hour , i would be a very rich man , either that or in jail for slave labour.
That or you would be a major US corporation outsourcing to India or Russia.
I easily solved this. I shaved my head, got several interesting piercings and have most of my visible body tattooed. Muggers see me coming and run away.
Built 1 web site = free sushi for life from a master chef Host 1 web site = free tattoos over most of my body Built+host 2 web sites + email = sex (well, she married me too) Built+host 1 web site = free accountant admin 1 box = free 1U+1Mbit connection (which I use to host the above mentioned barters) tech support = free clothes from a cool store
If I could just work something out with my mortgage lender and my utilities I could quit my job!
Having been involved with the production of Beowulf (I used to work at Threshold Entertainment) I can tell you that it does suck mightily. However, our CG of Grendel and the witch mother ROCKED. The initial script was good, Chris Lambert was good, the animators were great, the director and producer had their heads up their asses. The final script and the release were horrible. When we (the animators and tech staff) went to see the final before release we were disgusted. There's a reason it went direct to video.
You drive in to apply patches? Through a combination of VPNs, ssh, and vnc I apply patches to all of our machines and all of our client's machines from the comfort of my bed.
4Dwm isn't really the great part, it's not all that different from mwm, it's the other things that make up the IMD (fm, toolchest, etc)
Things I really like about IMD:
1. Drop pockets (I just think this is a slick way to handle drag and drop) 2. The shelf (I can associate a different shelf with any directory, which has icons for the applications I am likely to use with the files in that directory) 3. The toolchest (why should a menu have to take up the entire width of my screen?) 4. The file selection dialog (being able to click on part of a path and have the file browser jump to that part of the filesystem is nice) 5. The scroll wheel for scaling. (Okay, nautilus has the zoom buttons, but the scroll wheel just feels nicer to me) 6. tagging (This lets me assign an icon to a specific file rather than everything that matches that mime-type) 7./hosts (I have a ton of NFS shares on my network, being able to just go to/hosts/hostname/sharename rather than creating a mount point, mounting, get what I need, unmount, is very nice. This is more an IRIX thing than an IMD thing, but whatever) 8. Open directory as different user (ie, I want to grab some files from root's home directory, I can just open a filemanager window as root rather then using xterm+su/sudo/etc) 9. Better remote X user awareness (I can have a desktop configuration for when I log into X locally or from machine y or machine z, etc, etc with no special configuration required, it just works) 10. CPU Eater! (if you don't know what I'm talking about, get on an SGI that has demos.sw.* installed and check out your background options)
Okay, blatant plug, since I wrote this, but if you like the IMD's scalable icons you can have them under Gnome.
I created a Gnome SVG icon set of almost all of the SGI icons: http://www.webninja.com/files/Iris-0.4.tar .bz2.
Additionally, if you would rather generate your own.svg icons from the IRIX.fti icons, I wrote a perl script to do just that: http://www.webninja.com/files/fti2svg.pl
You can see a screenshot here: http://www.webninja.com/files/fti2svg.png I actually improved on the originals a little. fti icons have a very limited color palette, and simulate other colors using dithering, the generated svg files use the actual color that was trying to be achieved. Additionally, fti icons have a color called 'shadow' that is generally used for drop-shadows. The generated svg files apply a 50% alpha to the 'shadow' color for a little extra eye candy. Gnome also antialiases svg icons, whereas IRIX does not (unless you have an Octane or newer and are running at least IRIX 6.5.22, this is a recent addition)
I work at home, and the work day starts at 0900, so this is my routine:
0830: alarm goes off 0840: actually get out of bed 0842: start brewing coffee 0844: pour cup of coffee before it's actually ready 0845 (optional): small scream as I pour hot coffee on my hands since I haven't opened my eyes yet 0846: go out on deck with copy of whatever magazine is closest to hand (generally some ancient copy of Linux Journal). Smoke cigarette, drink coffee 0859: come back in 0900: log onto computer and check for emails from co-workers 0901: quick scan through various mailing lists for security alerts and the like 0903: try to remember what I was working on yesterday when I called it a day and get back onto it
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I use backblaze http://www.backblaze.com/ for off-site backups. $50/year for unlimited storage is more than reasonable. I currently have about 2.5TB backed up there.
This was true when the dollar coin was replaced. The replacement had to have the same dimensions and weight. But, show me a vending machine that accepts pennies...
I've been getting significantly MORE spam in the last month. I would assume that they base their metrics on how much spam was caught and identified. Since apparently more is getting through to me now, the article should really be titled "Significant Decline of Spam DETECTION".
I've always said that Windows was a virus.
I see a lot of people complaining that it's not a REAL workout, or it's just a gimmick. Knowing that the Wii Fit is sold out almost everywhere, how many of you have actually tried it?
I own a Wii Fit. I've been using it for 5 days now. Not a workout, my ass! Maybe if you only do the balance games, or maybe if you only consider a workout to be doing weightlifting. I've been doing the cardio games (Hula Hoop, Stepping, Running), and I end each session out of breath and sweating. No, a single 2 minute stepping series on the starter level doesn't wear me out. 30 minutes of rotating between the 3 exercises in the more advanced mode (which you only get after having done them for 30 minutes...I think. Regardless, they are an unlockable you wouldn't see the first time you tried) will have your heart rate up just as effectively as the same amount of time on your average exercise bike or elliptical trainer.
Would I lose any more weight if I drove 30 minutes to the nearest gym, paid the equivelent of a used car payment in membership fees every month, and used machines covered in somebody else's sweat? I doubt it. More importantly, I wouldn't bother, so I wouldn'get get ANY exercise. Walking into my living room and turning on the TV seems to have a much lower barrier to entry, so I can't easily make excuses for why I can't work out today.
I buy DRM free from iTunes. It's called iTunes Plus.
While I basically agree with what you are saying, "stupider" is in fact a word.
adj. stupider, stupidest
Slow to learn or understand; obtuse.
Tending to make poor decisions or careless mistakes.
Marked by a lack of intelligence or care; foolish or careless: a stupid mistake.
Dazed, stunned, or stupefied.
Pointless; worthless: a stupid job.
Citations:
American Psychological Association (APA):
stupider. (n.d.). The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Retrieved December 06, 2007, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/stupider
Chicago Manual Style (CMS):
stupider. Dictionary.com. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/stupider (accessed: December 06, 2007).
Modern Language Association (MLA):
"stupider." The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. 06 Dec. 2007. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/stupider>.
Pally AoE tanking...CC is for pansies
Admittedly, I'm not a piano tuner, but I tuned my guitars and bass by using the tuner built into GarageBand.
In theory, HDMA makes this even easier than your three little RCA jacks. One plug does everything. It really couldn't be any more simple. Unfortunately, some people cut corners and managed to screw it up.
We moved all of our servers to VMware virtual machines. Now we back them all up every night, some of them we even back up multiple times a day. We tried esxRanger first, but it took too long (back up of all of the VMs took 4 days) and used too much space. Then we moved to esXpress, which does differential backups of VMs, so it is MUCH faster and uses MUCH less space. We keep 30 days worth of backups online, but once a week we cut tapes of the monthly full and that week's differentials and ship it off-site.
The beauty of VM backups is that it is a backup of the entire system. You restore it and power on and you are running. You don't have to install an OS first and then the agent, and then restore a tape over the fresh OS install and hope it works.
Restores take exactly as much time as it takes you to read the data off of tape/disk. Once it is done reading/writing you just turn it on. Talk about your easy DR. However, for workstations this won't fly, but you really shouldn't be keeping anything important on workstations, that's why you have servers. We treat workstations as an interchangeable part. You log into any workstation with your credentials and you see your desktop/files/settings/etc, since they are all actually on the server. Our Windows workstations achieve this with roaming profiles and our Linux/UNIX workstations do it with NFS mounted home directories.
And would be absolutely useless on a laptop since ESX requires SCSI.
We use mToken on some WinCE devices as the office after reviewing I don't know how many terminal applications. It seems to work well, and was the only one we found that sends the xterm mouse events when you click on the screen (which we needed for our app).
Well, I wanted to use Sychronized Exchange of XML, but SEX was already taken.
Never thought I'd be saying this, but have you looked at Novell lately? I recently got pulled in to be the Linux consultant on a classic Netware to Novell Linux (SuSE) migration. eDirectory/Identity Manager are really nice.
If i could pay a programer 1 USD an hour , i would be a very rich man , either that or in jail for slave labour. That or you would be a major US corporation outsourcing to India or Russia.
I easily solved this. I shaved my head, got several interesting piercings and have most of my visible body tattooed. Muggers see me coming and run away.
Built 1 web site = free sushi for life from a master chef
Host 1 web site = free tattoos over most of my body
Built+host 2 web sites + email = sex (well, she married me too)
Built+host 1 web site = free accountant
admin 1 box = free 1U+1Mbit connection (which I use to host the above mentioned barters)
tech support = free clothes from a cool store
If I could just work something out with my mortgage lender and my utilities I could quit my job!
I use a similar argument all the time but applied to prostitution.
1) Sex is legal
2) Selling is legal
So why is selling sex illegal?
Having been involved with the production of Beowulf (I used to work at Threshold Entertainment) I can tell you that it does suck mightily. However, our CG of Grendel and the witch mother ROCKED. The initial script was good, Chris Lambert was good, the animators were great, the director and producer had their heads up their asses. The final script and the release were horrible. When we (the animators and tech staff) went to see the final before release we were disgusted. There's a reason it went direct to video.
You drive in to apply patches? Through a combination of VPNs, ssh, and vnc I apply patches to all of our machines and all of our client's machines from the comfort of my bed.
4Dwm isn't really the great part, it's not all that different from mwm, it's the other things that make up the IMD (fm, toolchest, etc)
/hosts (I have a ton of NFS shares on my network, being able to just go to /hosts/hostname/sharename rather than creating a mount point, mounting, get what I need, unmount, is very nice. This is more an IRIX thing than an IMD thing, but whatever)
Things I really like about IMD:
1. Drop pockets (I just think this is a slick way to handle drag and drop)
2. The shelf (I can associate a different shelf with any directory, which has icons for the applications I am likely to use with the files in that directory)
3. The toolchest (why should a menu have to take up the entire width of my screen?)
4. The file selection dialog (being able to click on part of a path and have the file browser jump to that part of the filesystem is nice)
5. The scroll wheel for scaling. (Okay, nautilus has the zoom buttons, but the scroll wheel just feels nicer to me)
6. tagging (This lets me assign an icon to a specific file rather than everything that matches that mime-type)
7.
8. Open directory as different user (ie, I want to grab some files from root's home directory, I can just open a filemanager window as root rather then using xterm+su/sudo/etc)
9. Better remote X user awareness (I can have a desktop configuration for when I log into X locally or from machine y or machine z, etc, etc with no special configuration required, it just works)
10. CPU Eater! (if you don't know what I'm talking about, get on an SGI that has demos.sw.* installed and check out your background options)
Okay, blatant plug, since I wrote this, but if you like the IMD's scalable icons you can have them under Gnome.
r .bz2.
.svg icons from the IRIX .fti icons, I wrote a perl script to do just that:
I created a Gnome SVG icon set of almost all of the SGI icons:
http://www.webninja.com/files/Iris-0.4.ta
Additionally, if you would rather generate your own
http://www.webninja.com/files/fti2svg.pl
You can see a screenshot here:
http://www.webninja.com/files/fti2svg.png
I actually improved on the originals a little. fti icons have a very limited color palette, and simulate other colors using dithering, the generated svg files use the actual color that was trying to be achieved. Additionally, fti icons have a color called 'shadow' that is generally used for drop-shadows. The generated svg files apply a 50% alpha to the 'shadow' color for a little extra eye candy. Gnome also antialiases svg icons, whereas IRIX does not (unless you have an Octane or newer and are running at least IRIX 6.5.22, this is a recent addition)
I work at home, and the work day starts at 0900, so this is my routine:
0830: alarm goes off
0840: actually get out of bed
0842: start brewing coffee
0844: pour cup of coffee before it's actually ready
0845 (optional): small scream as I pour hot coffee on my hands since I haven't opened my eyes yet
0846: go out on deck with copy of whatever magazine is closest to hand (generally some ancient copy of Linux Journal). Smoke cigarette, drink coffee
0859: come back in
0900: log onto computer and check for emails from co-workers
0901: quick scan through various mailing lists for security alerts and the like
0903: try to remember what I was working on yesterday when I called it a day and get back onto it