Open Transport was NOT around forever. I THINK it came out around OS 8, maybe 7.5 or 7.6. Don't remember. Before that were the MacTCP days. DEFINITELY not decades. I remember trying to get it to work on my mom's grad school IBM3090 account running VM/CMS back before I knew I needed SLIP (no, we didn't have PPP yet...)
Well, it is illegal if they're making bogus claims to get themselves in the news with the sole purpose of making their stock take off. Then they dump it all before it crashes...
*begin rant mode in 3...2...1...* AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! Fun my ass! You obviously have never tried to get thru a city during CM. The idea's not having fun, it's taking a mob mentality in thinking it's ok to disrupt everybody's life because you're pissed at the world.
I've always been one for peaceful demonstration and whatnot, but Critical Mass has always been a HUGE peeve of mine. What (and nobody I've asked has been able to answer this) is it supposed to accomplish??? Change? Well, it doesn't make me want to leave my car at home. It does, however, make me want to run down the next cyclist I see. Awareness? I know they say any publicity is good publicity, but pissing off the city isn't the way to gain support for a cause...
I might even agree with your cause. But the only thing making me late for work is gonna do is make me vote against whatever it is you're trying to accomplish.
Truth is, I've always thought of CM events as collective hissy fits. Just kicking and screaming and basically being annoying as hell.
If you want to bitch, fine, but direct it at someone who gives a damn and can do something about it. But don't fuck with the roads and interfere with all of us who are just trying to live our lives in peace and do our friggin jobs.
better than UPS. they're more than willing to pick up packages, but have an alarming tendency to hold them hostage. They only seem inclined to attempt delivery between 9-5 (in my area, anyway) on weekdays, when I'm at work. So it gets stored at their warehouse, which is open 7 days a week to ACCEPT packages, but, naturally, is only opened M-F 9-5 to pick them up. So it's impossible to pick one up without taking time off work.
I don't know how on earth they manage to stay in business, combined with their HORRBLE customer service. I've long since given up using them and in any orders I make I instruct the vendor to ship to me via any method available EXCEPT UPS. The extra $5 to get it via FedEx or something is cheaper than taking time off work to get my package.
I don't think there's any company on earth worse than UPS, except possibly U-Haul (my its executives die horrible deaths and burn in hell for all eternity), but that's worthy of a rant of its own.
yeah there shouldn't even be an OPTION of allowing relaying except from a particular group of hosts.
And if it's needed, USE AUTHENTICATION. I have three SMTP servers I can use for various uses (work, grad school, and my DSL ISP). All of them require authentication, either by logging in with a username/password or by requiring my IP to authenticate with their IMAP server before allowing me to send. It boggles my mind that so few servers require this given that all modern mail software allows for authentication using the SMTP we're already using!
It's probably considerably less interesting than that. When I graduated from high school, the school sent a letter saying I had 90 days or something to pick up my permanent record from the district office before it was destroyed. I was curious about this mythical folder, so I got it. Borrrring. Mostly all my report cards (from all the districts I had gone to from several cities and two states) and little notes about personality, etc. Nothing I'd call an "evaluation". It seemed more to give the next teacher you got (particularly in elementary school) and idea if you had a reputation for being a jackass or not. It had its interesting bits, but nothing special.
Hmm well at UCSB they have more bandwidth than they know what to do with. Like OC-63s and such. Unfortunately they put every on-campus resident together onto a 10Mb slice of it. I only lived on campus freshman year, so things may have changed. I don't know anyone who's living on campus now. But soph year I had a 768k DSL which blew away the resnet connection. Now I have cable capped at 3Mb and it's a whole other world.
I'm graduating this June, and I used a regular desktop PC (celeron 500 power, baby) for the first two years. The last two, however, I've gotten by just fine with my Dell Inspiron 4100 laptop. I never used it to take notes, but it was nice to be able to lug into labs (as a CE major doing mostly hardware design stuff).
As for numerical analysis software, DON'T buy it beforehand. There is a strong possibility your school will have a site license for one or more, which may work. If not (and you'd prefer to keep it legal;), most of them have MAD discounts for college students. Also, if you're in the college of engineering, there's almost a 100% chance they'll be installed on the lab machines. You may be able to run them over a remote X (I've done that with many an expensive program).
For math classes, I was partial to Mathematica, myself. Did most of what I needed. Later on, Matlab was the shit (and required for several classes).
I also have an old Handspring platinum that's served me quite well. I could get by without it, but it's damn nice for keeping track of homework and grades and such. All my classes are projects now so it's easy to keep track of without, but the first couple years where it's nothing but math hw, it was nice to have.
Yes, definitely flip-flops. I go to UC Santa Barbara, and people where them year 'round here. Part of the uniform.
About the fake IDs, yes, but (at least in CA) they won't typically work in bars or clubs. For liquor stores, however, absolutely. And I won't comment more on that subject than to say you would be very surprised at how easy it is to make a reasonable "novelty" california ID (even with the psuedo holograms). I swear, if we'd put the creativity we used for those things into our classes, we'd all be graduating with 4.0s...
I think you're overestimating the intelligence of a small-time criminal. As anyone who watches "Cops" knows, there are a LOT of criminals who just keep driving around with their own plates with warrants out for them who only happen to be caught for not using a turn signal (which should be a crime punishable by jailtime IMHO, but anyway...)
While the system may not have as large an effect on stolen cars (except when they're reported stolen quickly, then it's just like LoJac), it still can get the idiots.
just make sure it's the real thing - it's one thing to have security software on a machine at school (although it's much better to just log into a domain and make sure your file permissions are set right...)
I've known way too many people who, after using it in school, thought AtEase was Mac OS. No wonder they hate macs now...Who knows how much damage that one program did to Apple.
Uhhhh I think you need to double-check your terms. DRAM is a larger, cheaper, but slower, alternative to SRAM. It's basically a FET and a capacitor as opposed to SRAM which takes a couple FETs. There are many variants of DRAM, such as SDRAM, RDRAM, etc used in PCs which as far as I know, mainly affect how they're clocked (I've only ever interfaced to vanilla DRAM myself).
Anyway, you're probably thinking of RDRAM (RIMMs). That said, faster memory == good, so long as the bus can keep up.
this is exactly why (in california, anyway) it's illegal to have a tv/dvd player/etc viewable by the driver when the car's in motion. I believe most commercial systems require the car be in park for the systems to do anything but radio controls, navigation, and such.
Not to be an asshole, but seriously - you'd have to be a retard to try to watch a movie (or play a video game) and drive at the same time...
My roommate's got a hacked system so it CAN play DVDs, but christ, he's not stupid enough to do it while DRIVING!
Well I meant to say that the ftp was faster technically, but it didn't make much difference because you can't do anything while it installs whereas you can when you download the (slower) ISO.
I didn't know that the installer remembered where it was - is that a suse specific thing? Or has that been in all of my distributions lately and I just never noticed? Wow - actually learning something from/. Who'da thunk it?
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Christ, I'm 22, and I'm that old....
Open Transport was NOT around forever. I THINK it came out around OS 8, maybe 7.5 or 7.6. Don't remember. Before that were the MacTCP days. DEFINITELY not decades. I remember trying to get it to work on my mom's grad school IBM3090 account running VM/CMS back before I knew I needed SLIP (no, we didn't have PPP yet...)
My friends are all voting for him just so he can have the "I'll be back" re-election campaign...
Well, it is illegal if they're making bogus claims to get themselves in the news with the sole purpose of making their stock take off. Then they dump it all before it crashes...
*begin rant mode in 3...2...1...*
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
Fun my ass! You obviously have never tried to get thru a city during CM. The idea's not having fun, it's taking a mob mentality in thinking it's ok to disrupt everybody's life because you're pissed at the world.
I've always been one for peaceful demonstration and whatnot, but Critical Mass has always been a HUGE peeve of mine. What (and nobody I've asked has been able to answer this) is it supposed to accomplish??? Change? Well, it doesn't make me want to leave my car at home. It does, however, make me want to run down the next cyclist I see. Awareness? I know they say any publicity is good publicity, but pissing off the city isn't the way to gain support for a cause...
I might even agree with your cause. But the only thing making me late for work is gonna do is make me vote against whatever it is you're trying to accomplish.
Truth is, I've always thought of CM events as collective hissy fits. Just kicking and screaming and basically being annoying as hell.
If you want to bitch, fine, but direct it at someone who gives a damn and can do something about it. But don't fuck with the roads and interfere with all of us who are just trying to live our lives in peace and do our friggin jobs.
*sigh* It's so goddamn childish...
I think I prefer the San Francisco Police Chief's (I think it was him...) description of it as "a random act of idiocy".
scary as it may be, that's actually a better idea than anyone in the state government has come up with...
*sigh*
Forget Iraq - us Californian's need to be liberated from our retarded government...
Come on, Nevada - you know you want some more territory and tax revenue. Please? Imagine the casino city LA could become. What about you, Oregon?
It's definitely possible to run multiple X sessions on different virtual consoles. Sucks a bit of ram, but you can definitely do it.
better than UPS. they're more than willing to pick up packages, but have an alarming tendency to hold them hostage. They only seem inclined to attempt delivery between 9-5 (in my area, anyway) on weekdays, when I'm at work. So it gets stored at their warehouse, which is open 7 days a week to ACCEPT packages, but, naturally, is only opened M-F 9-5 to pick them up. So it's impossible to pick one up without taking time off work.
I don't know how on earth they manage to stay in business, combined with their HORRBLE customer service. I've long since given up using them and in any orders I make I instruct the vendor to ship to me via any method available EXCEPT UPS. The extra $5 to get it via FedEx or something is cheaper than taking time off work to get my package.
I don't think there's any company on earth worse than UPS, except possibly U-Haul (my its executives die horrible deaths and burn in hell for all eternity), but that's worthy of a rant of its own.
yeah there shouldn't even be an OPTION of allowing relaying except from a particular group of hosts.
And if it's needed, USE AUTHENTICATION. I have three SMTP servers I can use for various uses (work, grad school, and my DSL ISP). All of them require authentication, either by logging in with a username/password or by requiring my IP to authenticate with their IMAP server before allowing me to send. It boggles my mind that so few servers require this given that all modern mail software allows for authentication using the SMTP we're already using!
It's probably considerably less interesting than that. When I graduated from high school, the school sent a letter saying I had 90 days or something to pick up my permanent record from the district office before it was destroyed. I was curious about this mythical folder, so I got it. Borrrring. Mostly all my report cards (from all the districts I had gone to from several cities and two states) and little notes about personality, etc. Nothing I'd call an "evaluation". It seemed more to give the next teacher you got (particularly in elementary school) and idea if you had a reputation for being a jackass or not. It had its interesting bits, but nothing special.
On a related note, you students who want to make a switch should join the student ADC program. Costs $99 to join, then you get them for:
1.6 - $1599
1.8 - $1919
2x2 - $2399
Good discounts on displays too. Gotta buy everything at one time, though - the discount only works once.
wow, are you an idiot? it's:
Q: Why do programmers get Halloween and CHRISTMAS confused?
A: Because OCT 31 = DEC 25
How on earth is 30 HEX related to halloween?
Hmm well at UCSB they have more bandwidth than they know what to do with. Like OC-63s and such. Unfortunately they put every on-campus resident together onto a 10Mb slice of it. I only lived on campus freshman year, so things may have changed. I don't know anyone who's living on campus now. But soph year I had a 768k DSL which blew away the resnet connection. Now I have cable capped at 3Mb and it's a whole other world.
I'm graduating this June, and I used a regular desktop PC (celeron 500 power, baby) for the first two years. The last two, however, I've gotten by just fine with my Dell Inspiron 4100 laptop. I never used it to take notes, but it was nice to be able to lug into labs (as a CE major doing mostly hardware design stuff).
;), most of them have MAD discounts for college students. Also, if you're in the college of engineering, there's almost a 100% chance they'll be installed on the lab machines. You may be able to run them over a remote X (I've done that with many an expensive program).
As for numerical analysis software, DON'T buy it beforehand. There is a strong possibility your school will have a site license for one or more, which may work. If not (and you'd prefer to keep it legal
For math classes, I was partial to Mathematica, myself. Did most of what I needed. Later on, Matlab was the shit (and required for several classes).
I also have an old Handspring platinum that's served me quite well. I could get by without it, but it's damn nice for keeping track of homework and grades and such. All my classes are projects now so it's easy to keep track of without, but the first couple years where it's nothing but math hw, it was nice to have.
Yes, definitely flip-flops. I go to UC Santa Barbara, and people where them year 'round here. Part of the uniform.
About the fake IDs, yes, but (at least in CA) they won't typically work in bars or clubs. For liquor stores, however, absolutely. And I won't comment more on that subject than to say you would be very surprised at how easy it is to make a reasonable "novelty" california ID (even with the psuedo holograms). I swear, if we'd put the creativity we used for those things into our classes, we'd all be graduating with 4.0s...
I think you're overestimating the intelligence of a small-time criminal. As anyone who watches "Cops" knows, there are a LOT of criminals who just keep driving around with their own plates with warrants out for them who only happen to be caught for not using a turn signal (which should be a crime punishable by jailtime IMHO, but anyway...)
While the system may not have as large an effect on stolen cars (except when they're reported stolen quickly, then it's just like LoJac), it still can get the idiots.
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Yeah. I'll be first in line for that one. Jason vs. Freddie, on the other hand, could be hilarious
Apparantly you skipped physics class. E=m*c^2.
But on your 2nd point, you're right. A joule is defined based on a kg, not the other way around.
just make sure it's the real thing - it's one thing to have security software on a machine at school (although it's much better to just log into a domain and make sure your file permissions are set right...)
I've known way too many people who, after using it in school, thought AtEase was Mac OS. No wonder they hate macs now...Who knows how much damage that one program did to Apple.
Yeah, those of use about to actually get MSCEs (as in Master of Science in Computer Engineering) are offended by the association :)
Uhhhh I think you need to double-check your terms. DRAM is a larger, cheaper, but slower, alternative to SRAM. It's basically a FET and a capacitor as opposed to SRAM which takes a couple FETs. There are many variants of DRAM, such as SDRAM, RDRAM, etc used in PCs which as far as I know, mainly affect how they're clocked (I've only ever interfaced to vanilla DRAM myself).
Anyway, you're probably thinking of RDRAM (RIMMs). That said, faster memory == good, so long as the bus can keep up.
this is exactly why (in california, anyway) it's illegal to have a tv/dvd player/etc viewable by the driver when the car's in motion. I believe most commercial systems require the car be in park for the systems to do anything but radio controls, navigation, and such.
Not to be an asshole, but seriously - you'd have to be a retard to try to watch a movie (or play a video game) and drive at the same time...
My roommate's got a hacked system so it CAN play DVDs, but christ, he's not stupid enough to do it while DRIVING!
Hmmm. After getting my CE degree, emphasizing in computer architecture and VLSI work, I just got hired as a software engineer (doing firmware).
Go figure.
Well, getting the file would be no trouble at all. Just look at how many people have Gator running on their computers...
I dunno, I've always thought of drug tests as basic intelligence tests.
Basically they ask: "Are you too stupid to put down the weed while you're looking for a job and you know you'll be screened in the near future?"
You rule out both the addicts (probably don't want them...) and the dumbasses (don't need them either).
Random tests are a whole different discussion, frankly I think that as long as your job performance is ok, then whatever floats your boat...
Well I meant to say that the ftp was faster technically, but it didn't make much difference because you can't do anything while it installs whereas you can when you download the (slower) ISO.
/. Who'da thunk it?
I didn't know that the installer remembered where it was - is that a suse specific thing? Or has that been in all of my distributions lately and I just never noticed? Wow - actually learning something from