The thing is, nothing behind the walls was sabotaged.
Maybe not in your case, but the way I read some of the customer vs contractor posts under this article, some of the contractors are pretty heavy handed. We have pig-headed people in NZ like anywhere else, both on the customer and contractor sides. The time spent checking out the reliability and flexibility of any contractor you engage for a major project (like building your home) is well worth it. YMMV as always.
Here in New Zealand, there are good builders and bad builders. You don't pick a builder from the yellow pages - you find a good one by word of mouth. And you agree beforehand what you want done, and what your requirements are, and so on. We have various contract laws and consumer protection laws that many other countries also have. I have never heard of any building contractors pulling out or otherwise sabotaging the wiring and/or conduits that a customer has put in. The worst they'll do is mock you for being such a geek or argue about the best way to go about it.
The conduit starts empty except for the pull-string. When the pull-string is used to pull a cable through, it also pulls a second pull-string through, so there is always a pull-string in the conduit.
Yes, you do want an accessable junction box at every corner.
Yes, eventually to conduit may be so full that you can't pull more through, but by then you probably want a bigger house anyway:-)
Dysgraphia is similar to dyslexia, except it effects your writing rather than your reading. I think it often goes unnoticed throughout your schooling years. I dont' know how hard it is to overcome (I haven't needed to overcome it because I use a keyboard rather than a tablet+stylus).
Maybe we should create some sort of forum in which all of the relevant evidence, witnesses, and experts could come together to discuss the case and try to ascertain intent and then apply an appropriate punishment. Oh wait, that's a court, and that's where he's going.
Well said. If I had mods I'd mod you up. Instead I'll settle for a lame me too post.
Let his defence lawyer argue the point that this is not terrorism. Personally I think it's stupid and I'd hate to see someone get off unpunished if they did that in my country - but whether it's terrorism is for the jury to decide after hearing the evidence that we on/. haven't heard.
No Windows box should be directly connected to the Internet. I might even go so far as to say no desktop OS (Including Mdk, RH, SuSE and MacOS) should be directly connected.
Firewalls like IPCop, Smoothwall or OpenBSD can run on very modest hardware (486, maybe 386).
Sure it helps to close the ports on your workstations if you can, but firewall them too.
At the Linux potluck, a few contributors provide most of the food, and the rest of us just turn up with paper plates expecting to be fed. Surprisingly though, the contributors don't seem to mind feeding us. There are also a few corporate sponsors reimbursing some of the food contributors. One would assume that these corporate sponsors are getting something out of it, but we don't worry too much about it because we're all getting fed.
At the very least run memtest86 before saying you "know" you don't have hardware problems.
Yes, and run it overnight. You'll see the number of errors encountered in one of the rightmost columns. In the left column it displays how long the memtest has been running, so if you see the next morning it's been running for three hours you'll know it rebooted overnight during the test.
Probably. But, again, that's irrelevant. I didn't say anything about their comparable coding abilities, I just said they are almost certainly of comparable intelligence.
No probably about it.
IIRC, the 'Quick & Dirty Operation System'was written by some guy called Tim Patterson. QDOS was written to be file-structure compatible with CP/M and later evolved into MS-DOS/PC-DOS when the acronym was changed to mean 'Disk Operating System'. The original author apparently once said that it was a hack at the time because he didn't have time to write a proper OS, and he never meant it to be the basis for what it became. Fortunately the NT line of windows is VMS based rather than CP/M based like Windows 3.x/95/98/Me.
But as to the intelligence factor, look at how much time each of them has spent actually coding, vs. doing Business Management. Now, you may consider BM as requiring more intelligence to accomplish than creative coding; personally, I don't.
I regard Linus as a coding genius and Bill as a marketing genius. What's harder, starting an OSS project and getting help from geeks to make it what it is today, or convincing the world that viruses, worms and rebooting are a normal and acceptable part of computing life?
Why not take advantage of the capabilities of IP? When a 911 (or 999 or 111 depending on your country) call is placed, the protocol could specify that some location meta-data is sent with the call. This needn't be limited to location - medical conditions and special needs could be transmitted as well. Wouldn't it be cool if a diabetic 86 year old could dial 111 (in NZ, or 911 in USA) and her medical condition flashes on the screen of the emergency operator. For privacy advocates, we could have this meta-data under the control of the VoIP subscriber.
Hold on Im getting mugged/raped/murdered OH but first let me log on to my computer to dial 911 WTF ?
With a proper set up you won't have to log into your computer. Your VoIP phone looks like a normal phone which happens to be plugged into your router rather than a PSTN phone jack. This fact should be transparent to the enduser. With a proper implementation, I should be able to rip out the PSTN phones in my house and replace them with VoIP phones that connect to my router, and no-one else in the household should notice any difference.
If you can't get to your VoIP phone in the above scenario, you wouldn't have been able to get to your PSTN phone either.
So you're telling me that the electric pole that has the poles going in my property (backyard) contains power that I own? -- That I can legally tap into it even if I don't pay my electric bill, simply because one of the power polls sit within my backyard?
If the power company does not have an easement (aka right of way) to transmit power across your property, then their power lines are trespassing, in which case you COULD argue that you have the right to that power. The easement would have been arranged with whoever owned that backyard at ther time the poles were erected. If you didn't check out the land title before you bought it - tough luck.
In the case of the farmer - I'm sure the power company has its paperwork in order so the power belongs to the lines transmission operator, not the landowner. In the case of some satelite TV company, they definitely do NOT have an agreement to broadcast their signal through my property, therefore I own whatever radiation enters my house.
When I start swearing at the computer my wife quietly taps me on the shoulder and suggests praying. She prays. I pray. Then I get back to fixing it and it works.
Back in the 1980s I remember the DOS warez community was crawling with viruses. If you believe the argument that virus infections corelate to number of installed bases, then you would expect to see as many viruses for linux today as there were for DOS in the 1980s. Remember that back then they spread by boot sectors on floppies. With duh intarweb you'd likely expect to see even more. I know my Mandrake boxen have vulnerabilities - that's why they're firewalled behind IPCop. I don't know why someone isn't making and selling mini-pcs with IPCop (or equiv) to place between family PC and Intarweb connection.
One thing my linux mail clients don't do with attachments is setuid root them, chmod a+x them and then autorun them.
There is already too much fiber. More than 50% is not being used. There is never too much fiber. It will be used. When you say "50% is not being used" are you talking about average load or peak load? Peak usage can be orders of magnitude larger than average usage. Think of Christmas (or Thanksgiving for you American types). What about virus outbreaks? They tend to double or triple the amount of email traffic on the wire at any one time. If your 2GHz CPU had an average load of 1%, would you replace it with a 20MHz CPU?
Man, reading this post makes me thirsty. Mind you, I never drink Dihydrogen Monoxide on its own. I always need to dilute it with Dihydrocarbon hydroxide and various flavours. Hops and malt spring to mind. Mmmm.
Personally, I did snoop in my wife's email. That's why she's now my ex. Neither qualms nor regrets.
There's a story waiting to be told. In my case, my wife and I sometimes read email over eachothers' shoulders. We know each other's passwords and nothing is hidden. I'm guessing that whatever you read while snooping her email would have lead to a split eventually anyway - snooping just made you discover sooner rather than later. Sorry dude - I hope you find someone better.
Okay troll, I'll bite. I've placed so many non-techies in front of a mandrake box and if they've had any experience with any gui OS, they have no trouble finding the icon I labelled "Browse the Web" or "Word Processor".
Sure, I had to rename the icons from "Mozilla" & "OpenOffice.org", but if shops were selling linux pre-installed, which is what would happen in your scenario, then this would all be taken care of.
Do you really think, if MS pulled out of Europe, that EU computer retailers would sell PCs with a linux install disk and say "Here, install it yourself"?
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The thing is, nothing behind the walls was sabotaged.
Maybe not in your case, but the way I read some of the customer vs contractor posts under this article, some of the contractors are pretty heavy handed. We have pig-headed people in NZ like anywhere else, both on the customer and contractor sides. The time spent checking out the reliability and flexibility of any contractor you engage for a major project (like building your home) is well worth it.
YMMV as always.
I am new to the Linux community ... ASP based [emphasis mine]
:-)
I think you mean something like PHP based. The article asks for open source ideas. We'll forgive you coz you're a newcomer
Here in New Zealand, there are good builders and bad builders. You don't pick a builder from the yellow pages - you find a good one by word of mouth. And you agree beforehand what you want done, and what your requirements are, and so on.
We have various contract laws and consumer protection laws that many other countries also have. I have never heard of any building contractors pulling out or otherwise sabotaging the wiring and/or conduits that a customer has put in. The worst they'll do is mock you for being such a geek or argue about the best way to go about it.
The conduit starts empty except for the pull-string.
:-)
When the pull-string is used to pull a cable through, it also pulls a second pull-string through, so there is always a pull-string in the conduit.
Yes, you do want an accessable junction box at every corner.
Yes, eventually to conduit may be so full that you can't pull more through, but by then you probably want a bigger house anyway
Dysgraphia is similar to dyslexia, except it effects your writing rather than your reading. I think it often goes unnoticed throughout your schooling years.
I dont' know how hard it is to overcome (I haven't needed to overcome it because I use a keyboard rather than a tablet+stylus).
But the command shell on Windows XP has tab completion
I'm using windows 2000 at work, and tab completion doesn't work.
Any way to enable it without admin privilige?
This has always been the case. It's the golden rule: Those who have the gold make the rules.
Sometimes decency prevails but usually everyone does what's best for themselves, and those in power (money) will use it to stay in power.
The human race (myself included) are a bunch of self-serving bastards. God help us.
Maybe we should create some sort of forum in which all of the relevant evidence, witnesses, and experts could come together to discuss the case and try to ascertain intent and then apply an appropriate punishment. Oh wait, that's a court, and that's where he's going.
/. haven't heard.
Well said. If I had mods I'd mod you up. Instead I'll settle for a lame me too post.
Let his defence lawyer argue the point that this is not terrorism.
Personally I think it's stupid and I'd hate to see someone get off unpunished if they did that in my country - but whether it's terrorism is for the jury to decide after hearing the evidence that we on
I hope so
No Windows box should be directly connected to the Internet.
I might even go so far as to say no desktop OS (Including Mdk, RH, SuSE and MacOS) should be directly connected.
Firewalls like IPCop, Smoothwall or OpenBSD can run on very modest hardware (486, maybe 386).
Sure it helps to close the ports on your workstations if you can, but firewall them too.
At the Linux potluck, a few contributors provide most of the food, and the rest of us just turn up with paper plates expecting to be fed. Surprisingly though, the contributors don't seem to mind feeding us. There are also a few corporate sponsors reimbursing some of the food contributors. One would assume that these corporate sponsors are getting something out of it, but we don't worry too much about it because we're all getting fed.
At the very least run memtest86 before saying you "know" you don't have hardware problems.
Yes, and run it overnight. You'll see the number of errors encountered in one of the rightmost columns.
In the left column it displays how long the memtest has been running, so if you see the next morning it's been running for three hours you'll know it rebooted overnight during the test.
Probably. But, again, that's irrelevant. I didn't say anything about their comparable coding abilities, I just said they are almost certainly of comparable intelligence.
No probably about it.
IIRC, the 'Quick & Dirty Operation System'was written by some guy called Tim Patterson. QDOS was written to be file-structure compatible with CP/M and later evolved into MS-DOS/PC-DOS when the acronym was changed to mean 'Disk Operating System'.
The original author apparently once said that it was a hack at the time because he didn't have time to write a proper OS, and he never meant it to be the basis for what it became.
Fortunately the NT line of windows is VMS based rather than CP/M based like Windows 3.x/95/98/Me.
But as to the intelligence factor, look at how much time each of them has spent actually coding, vs. doing Business Management. Now, you may consider BM as requiring more intelligence to accomplish than creative coding; personally, I don't.
I regard Linus as a coding genius and Bill as a marketing genius.
What's harder, starting an OSS project and getting help from geeks to make it what it is today, or convincing the world that viruses, worms and rebooting are a normal and acceptable part of computing life?
Then how are people going to jail for "intercepting" satelite tv?
Obviously the law considers it stealing.
Not all laws are just.
Why not take advantage of the capabilities of IP? When a 911 (or 999 or 111 depending on your country) call is placed, the protocol could specify that some location meta-data is sent with the call. This needn't be limited to location - medical conditions and special needs could be transmitted as well.
Wouldn't it be cool if a diabetic 86 year old could dial 111 (in NZ, or 911 in USA) and her medical condition flashes on the screen of the emergency operator. For privacy advocates, we could have this meta-data under the control of the VoIP subscriber.
Hold on Im getting mugged/raped/murdered OH but first let me log on to my computer to dial 911
WTF ?
With a proper set up you won't have to log into your computer.
Your VoIP phone looks like a normal phone which happens to be plugged into your router rather than a PSTN phone jack.
This fact should be transparent to the enduser.
With a proper implementation, I should be able to rip out the PSTN phones in my house and replace them with VoIP phones that connect to my router, and no-one else in the household should notice any difference.
If you can't get to your VoIP phone in the above scenario, you wouldn't have been able to get to your PSTN phone either.
So you're telling me that the electric pole that has the poles going in my property (backyard) contains power that I own? -- That I can legally tap into it even if I don't pay my electric bill, simply because one of the power polls sit within my backyard?
If the power company does not have an easement (aka right of way) to transmit power across your property, then their power lines are trespassing, in which case you COULD argue that you have the right to that power. The easement would have been arranged with whoever owned that backyard at ther time the poles were erected. If you didn't check out the land title before you bought it - tough luck.
In the case of the farmer - I'm sure the power company has its paperwork in order so the power belongs to the lines transmission operator, not the landowner.
In the case of some satelite TV company, they definitely do NOT have an agreement to broadcast their signal through my property, therefore I own whatever radiation enters my house.
When I start swearing at the computer my wife quietly taps me on the shoulder and suggests praying. She prays. I pray. Then I get back to fixing it and it works.
If it completes with no problems, it's a pretty good indication that the hardware is in good condition.
and if it doesn't complete with no problems - does it tell you what the problem is?
Back in the 1980s I remember the DOS warez community was crawling with viruses.
If you believe the argument that virus infections corelate to number of installed bases, then you would expect to see as many viruses for linux today as there were for DOS in the 1980s.
Remember that back then they spread by boot sectors on floppies. With duh intarweb you'd likely expect to see even more.
I know my Mandrake boxen have vulnerabilities - that's why they're firewalled behind IPCop. I don't know why someone isn't making and selling mini-pcs with IPCop (or equiv) to place between family PC and Intarweb connection.
One thing my linux mail clients don't do with attachments is setuid root them, chmod a+x them and then autorun them.
There is already too much fiber. More than 50% is not being used.
There is never too much fiber. It will be used. When you say "50% is not being used" are you talking about average load or peak load? Peak usage can be orders of magnitude larger than average usage. Think of Christmas (or Thanksgiving for you American types).
What about virus outbreaks? They tend to double or triple the amount of email traffic on the wire at any one time.
If your 2GHz CPU had an average load of 1%, would you replace it with a 20MHz CPU?
From the original post: ... What types of coffee would you recommend to a seasoned coffee afficionado
and I dislike filtered coffee
This is a contradiction. Instant != Coffee IMNSHO. No, I'm not trying to flame or troll - but really - ask any real coffee afficionado.
Man, reading this post makes me thirsty. Mind you, I never drink Dihydrogen Monoxide on its own. I always need to dilute it with Dihydrocarbon hydroxide and various flavours. Hops and malt spring to mind. Mmmm.
Personally, I did snoop in my wife's email. That's why she's now my ex. Neither qualms nor regrets.
There's a story waiting to be told.
In my case, my wife and I sometimes read email over eachothers' shoulders.
We know each other's passwords and nothing is hidden.
I'm guessing that whatever you read while snooping her email would have lead to a split eventually anyway - snooping just made you discover sooner rather than later.
Sorry dude - I hope you find someone better.
Okay troll, I'll bite.
I've placed so many non-techies in front of a mandrake box and if they've had any experience with any gui OS, they have no trouble finding the icon I labelled "Browse the Web" or "Word Processor".
Sure, I had to rename the icons from "Mozilla" & "OpenOffice.org", but if shops were selling linux pre-installed, which is what would happen in your scenario, then this would all be taken care of.
Do you really think, if MS pulled out of Europe, that EU computer retailers would sell PCs with a linux install disk and say "Here, install it yourself"?
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