The hard drive mounts in the G4 cases blow. They stack the hard drives, which is all well and good except that for some reason they made the top drive mount too wide for any of my drives.
Also, there's space (and screw holes) for two of these stack-mounts in there, but they only provide one of the mounting pieces. What's up with that?
Honestly, it's just Patrick at this point -- again. The rest of us were there for a year or two, depending on how you count our level of involvement, and then were scattered again by the BSDi collapse.
I'm immensely proud of my association with Slackware and with Patrick, but credit where it's due and all that.
Can they get someone to and back from the moon by 2010 - Hell yes. They have at least a million young men who are willing to risk thier lives for a chance at glory and honor.
Huh? How is a large population of young men an advantage here? How many tries do you think it'll take them?
They're not going to just shoot guys out of a cannon at the moon and hope they bounce back.
If you're a paramedic or a cop, just skipping out is a bad idea.
For the rest of us, it's just a few of hours of work missed. I have a "real job", as do the 14 other employees who went with me to see AotC. Miraculously, the world did not grind to a halt, the company didn't shut its doors for good, and nobody died.
There's more to life than work, even if sometimes it's just a cool movie.
Even if you consider someone from LA to be equivalent to someone from SF, at a rough estimate you've got (2*2500+1*0)/3 = 1667 miles on the LA/NJ side and (2*70+1*500)/3 = 213 miles on the Santa Cruz/NV side.
And for the record, I vaguely remember some of the quakes you mentioned, but only because you mentioned them; I'm from Georgia. So your "Bay Area elitist" snub sort of falls flat. Sue me for not being hip to your quake scene.
I propose a system that takes the average distance from San Francisco at which all those who uttered an expletive during the quake were born.
Thus, if three guys from Jersey and one guy from L.A. all say "holy fuck" in the middle of a quake, it doesn't rate as highly as a quake which gets a "shit shit shit" from a Nevadan and a couple from Santa Cruz.
Me, I gave it a "whoa", but that "whoa" has a Georgia compensation factor attached to it.
Probably there would be a hole in the nuclear reactor.
Not much point in worrying about what would happen if a multi-ton pellet hits something important at 900,000 mph. For one thing, it's not likely. For another, you sure aren't going to stop it.
Microsoft is right. The path to better navigability of the web does lie through searching, not through naming. The namespace is inherently very limited and cannot cope in any reasonable manner with the sheer volume of information that is available on the Web. What are needed are indices, and they need to take into account the content of documents, not simply their locations.
When I want to find RandomCo online, unless they're a seriously huge company I don't just guess at randomco.com. That's not reliable enough. I've also long since ceased to visit directory sites to look up RandomCo. What I do instead is go to Google, type in "RandomCo RandomProduct" and find it immediately. This is infinitely more applicable to documents that are not sponsored by huge corporations, given the corporate dominance and limited range of the DNS hierarchy.
RealNames didn't even have a shot without Microsoft's dominance of the browser market, so Teare's parting shots at Microsoft (while very accurate) smack of hypocrisy. Dollars to doughnuts RealNames loved the fact that there was a single company to deal with in their bid to propagate their technology.
The article did say that only one man hopes to save it. I imagine he didn't have much more than $100 after forking over the 50 Gs to buy it in the first place.
I for one fail to see the historic significance of this thing. Yes, it was the only dome Fuller ever lived in. So what? He himself sold the damn thing.
Aside from being a very slightly distinguished example of a concept that utterly failed to revolutionize housing as we know it, it's just a house. I can respect that it was this guy's buddy's house, but apparently it's nevertheless a shoddily maintained moneypit with not much else to recommend it. Bulldoze it and reuse the land.
I am writing to express my sincerest thanks and deepest gratitude. Your wry wit and caustic tongue are a true credit to the wad community, and an inspiration to us all.
Nevermore shall we labour under the delusion that provision of background information when initiating a public discussion is common courtesy; you have shown us that it is a mark of weakness to include some parenthetical briefly describing the subject of the discussion, and a mark of intellectual laziness to enquire of one's fellow conversants as to the nature of said subject. Foolish have we been to "hyperlink" to relevant information in the past, when the true path to enlightened discussion was so clearly independent research conducted in isolation from the forum.
It is readily apparent, now that you have laid it before our prior-unseeing eyes, that the basis of a discussion must under no circumstances itself be given voice, lest that demon head of redundancy be reared, or the sometime ignorant robbed of the opportunity for independent discovery.
Again must I iterate my gratitude to you. I can only begin to imagine the chore and bother it must be to you, to set down the great and important tasks with which you are charged, to descend from the realm of higher reasoning and consuming thought to elucidate for we the hoi polloi the basic precepts of a public forum. I hope to assure you that your cherished time was well disposed, and that our enlightenment was worth the inconvenience and neglect of your own affairs. Our thanks, and our neverending appreciation and admiration, are yours.
Slashdot Mirror
I think they mean he stole work orders for 630 pickup truck drivers.
I did install a drive in the upper mount, and I did bend the arms to do it; it just left me wondering if I was missing a spacer piece.
Also, there's space (and screw holes) for two of these stack-mounts in there, but they only provide one of the mounting pieces. What's up with that?
I'm immensely proud of my association with Slackware and with Patrick, but credit where it's due and all that.
--Logan
Already been done. I know lots of people who have a SimClue.
Because then you, personally, are not so special? Do we list that under "cost" or "benefit"?
I generally support the use of Linux over Windows myself, so I know there are reasons to do so without bringing your misguided elitism into it.
At some point I'll have to collect all those packages, too.
Go ahead, burn your mod points on me. I can take one for the team.
Um, that's what editors do. It's why they call things like this "editorials".
Huh? How is a large population of young men an advantage here? How many tries do you think it'll take them?
They're not going to just shoot guys out of a cannon at the moon and hope they bounce back.
For the rest of us, it's just a few of hours of work missed. I have a "real job", as do the 14 other employees who went with me to see AotC. Miraculously, the world did not grind to a halt, the company didn't shut its doors for good, and nobody died.
There's more to life than work, even if sometimes it's just a cool movie.
The next step is to elect a new legislature.
And I really don't see how you get from civil disobedience to Columbine. Did you skip out on civics class for crack hits?
I swear, the shit that comes out of geeks' mouths when they start talking politics is appalling.
Okay, it's time for Fun with Basic Math!
Even if you consider someone from LA to be equivalent to someone from SF, at a rough estimate you've got (2*2500+1*0)/3 = 1667 miles on the LA/NJ side and (2*70+1*500)/3 = 213 miles on the Santa Cruz/NV side.
And for the record, I vaguely remember some of the quakes you mentioned, but only because you mentioned them; I'm from Georgia. So your "Bay Area elitist" snub sort of falls flat. Sue me for not being hip to your quake scene.
Fie, Slashdot, fie!
I propose a system that takes the average distance from San Francisco at which all those who uttered an expletive during the quake were born.
Thus, if three guys from Jersey and one guy from L.A. all say "holy fuck" in the middle of a quake, it doesn't rate as highly as a quake which gets a "shit shit shit" from a Nevadan and a couple from Santa Cruz.
Me, I gave it a "whoa", but that "whoa" has a Georgia compensation factor attached to it.
Not much point in worrying about what would happen if a multi-ton pellet hits something important at 900,000 mph. For one thing, it's not likely. For another, you sure aren't going to stop it.
When I want to find RandomCo online, unless they're a seriously huge company I don't just guess at randomco.com. That's not reliable enough. I've also long since ceased to visit directory sites to look up RandomCo. What I do instead is go to Google, type in "RandomCo RandomProduct" and find it immediately. This is infinitely more applicable to documents that are not sponsored by huge corporations, given the corporate dominance and limited range of the DNS hierarchy.
RealNames didn't even have a shot without Microsoft's dominance of the browser market, so Teare's parting shots at Microsoft (while very accurate) smack of hypocrisy. Dollars to doughnuts RealNames loved the fact that there was a single company to deal with in their bid to propagate their technology.
I for one fail to see the historic significance of this thing. Yes, it was the only dome Fuller ever lived in. So what? He himself sold the damn thing.
Aside from being a very slightly distinguished example of a concept that utterly failed to revolutionize housing as we know it, it's just a house. I can respect that it was this guy's buddy's house, but apparently it's nevertheless a shoddily maintained moneypit with not much else to recommend it. Bulldoze it and reuse the land.
I'm sorry. I'm going to go take a nap now. Moderators, do what you must.
It's the only way to be sure.
As far as I can tell, the airlines have been executing a Denial of Service attack against their passengers for years.
(Note that the GPL is not, generally, my license of choice.)
I am writing to express my sincerest thanks and deepest gratitude. Your wry wit and caustic tongue are a true credit to the wad community, and an inspiration to us all.
Nevermore shall we labour under the delusion that provision of background information when initiating a public discussion is common courtesy; you have shown us that it is a mark of weakness to include some parenthetical briefly describing the subject of the discussion, and a mark of intellectual laziness to enquire of one's fellow conversants as to the nature of said subject. Foolish have we been to "hyperlink" to relevant information in the past, when the true path to enlightened discussion was so clearly independent research conducted in isolation from the forum.
It is readily apparent, now that you have laid it before our prior-unseeing eyes, that the basis of a discussion must under no circumstances itself be given voice, lest that demon head of redundancy be reared, or the sometime ignorant robbed of the opportunity for independent discovery.
Again must I iterate my gratitude to you. I can only begin to imagine the chore and bother it must be to you, to set down the great and important tasks with which you are charged, to descend from the realm of higher reasoning and consuming thought to elucidate for we the hoi polloi the basic precepts of a public forum. I hope to assure you that your cherished time was well disposed, and that our enlightenment was worth the inconvenience and neglect of your own affairs. Our thanks, and our neverending appreciation and admiration, are yours.
With Greatest Sincerity,
dangermouse
What the hell is "the Phantom Edit 1.1"?
Magic!