Several years ago, an employee in the US HR department of a large, international company HQ in the UK send out a large mailing announcing the new engineering hires. The mail format was cc:mail, the attachment was an excel document. Columns in the excel file containing starting salary and moving expenses, etc where supposedly *hidden*. Well, when the excel file was opened by the recipient, the columns were no longer hidden.
Lots of existing staffers suddenly got raises.
This kind of thing happens.
good photo of Bride and Groom - DSC_0303.JPG
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http://hemos.net/wedding/DSC_0303.JPG
not karma whoring - not worth moderating up. just sifting slowly through the list...
You've seen the banner ads with the Penguin being shot out of a cannon (Slashot) and others on UserFriendly. Click thru one of them and check out the product at http://www.omnis.net/products/studio/index.html I am an Omnis user (against Oracle) although I'm not using Studio yet. Native SQL drives for Oracle, Informix, DB2, etc. on Win32, MacOS and Linux.MySQL you have to hit through ODBC. They also have a web client, so code that you use in the GUI can also be used on a web-based app server. Lots of links listed here: http://www.interactive-systems.com/omnis.html
In a Capitalist sense - nothing could be more "true" that providing a desired good in exchange for compensation. How does this make the guy a scumbag - just becuase he attempted to circumvent an arbitrary law that was eventually repealed?
are you attempting to bring the concept of "MORALS" into this thread? EGADS! >"and that many of the Bronfman owned hotels were really fronts for prostitution" the idea or concept of privacy has nothing to do with value judgements like whether prostitution is right or wrong. Unless someone has manged to secure a patent on "Services Rendered in Exchange for Compensation Whereby the Renumerator Experiences Pleasure Provided by the Compensated Party" - prostitution is handled by local (state) laws, and not involved in the entire DeCSS/DMCA/Napster issue. At least a prostitute (probably) doesn't care who you are, nor wants to track you for 'stickyness' - sorry - I couldn't resist that one - I mean repeat business.
Anyone know where I can get a summer-weight ski mask? I don't mean merely wearing your girlfriend's nylons over your face - just something more comfortable than a paper bag that doesn't give you severe hat-head. I'm interested in just wearing one around for the fuck of it - just to prove the point of having the right to wear one. Funny thing is this - I used to live in an apartment complex where a substantial segment of the population wore garb that concealed their face entirely - with th eexception of a small slit to see through. My quote then was "that's cause they're all terrorists". Well, even without citizenship, they were allowed to dress in such a fashion with risk of being harrased for concealing their identity. enough - bored with my own post
for I have dined on honeydew and drank the milk of paradise...
The copmany donated computer is an extension of the company - its still company assets. Treat it as such. If it was a company car, would you drive it cross-country on vacation? If its a company cell phone, would you call 1-900 numbers with it?
Store your email and browser caches on removable media (mount ZIP or Jaz drives) for personal use - OR - use a removable hard drive tray.
It ain't that hard... just play the game.
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Yes! that's it! Of Course! Patent things that you don't want, such as 'A Novel Method of Informing Drones that its Time To Buy'. Then we'll have the corporations trying to dismantle the Patent System. Beat them at their own game - and turn the patent over to FSF.
starting at cr1-hfc6.union1.nj.home.net: 15 hops to get there can't help much either. I'm getting around 47 ms - but didn't hit that router - the Net must have adapted...
Re:Repeat -MODERATORS on CRACK AGAIN - was #2 post
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How can the above post be 'Redundant' when its post #2?
This shows how moderators should not read everything from highlest to lowest, since all that does is provide positive feedback for those submissions that have already been bumped up.
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Re: That's what profits are: extra money? Asshole.
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Uh - if you stick fundz in a passbook account (you know - the thing that you used to use 20 years ago before ATM's - you get a non-zero rate of return without risk.
That's profit. Guaranteed return, without risk. That should be illegal. Fotunately, we have inflation. Lately, its been predictable (during the Carter Admin it wasn't). Inflation is the cure for return without risk.
So: profit = reward for risking capital. Without reward, who will face risk?
oversimplifications suck.
Generalized, sweeping oversimplifications imply (in my book) that you are simply a moron. (which could be an oversimpification made by a moron).
Anyway, profits don't suck. Recessions suck. Depressions suck worse. Centralized planning blows. Can you imagine if Centralized Planning told you what distribution of Linux you could install?
I bought 3 of those Sigma Designs Hollywood+ cards + Pioneer 10x DVD drives for christmas presents (for windows boxes).
So Mom doesn't have one. Wanna sell it? 50 bucks?
Wallace and Grommit never looked better than on a DVD with that Hollywood +. Even with a PII 266 the image was razor sharp. My nieces and nephews don't know about OS' and by the time that they're old enough to care - they won't have to.
So I don't have a DVD drive running now - but that doesn't mean that I want to inflict my views on friends & family that only run Windows (even though I installed RH 6.1 on their boxes).
http://www.omnis.net http://www.omnis.net/linux/index.html Omnis Software won an award at LinuxWorldExpo last August in the Development Tools category.
It will soon be shipping with dome of the full-price Linux distributions. http://www.omnis.net/whatsnew/press/caldera24.ht ml
Omnis Studio supports native DAMs against Oracle, DB2, Informix, ODBC, etc. data sources.
It supports the use of JavaBeans and ActiveX components. It already has a large international developer base.
Even with a pair of Quantum Atlas V drives (27 MB/sec write rate), I doubt that any real performance gains will be measured running at 160 MB/sec burst rate over 80 MB/sec (U2W). Now, when you've got a RAID 0 stripe 4 drives deep, that might show some potential for improvement.
So this one is definitely for the server room.
Those new IBM drives with up to a 16 MB cache - if you have 16 MB cache on each drive, plus 64 MB cache on the RAID controller, then the 80 MB/sec is potentially rate-limiting.
mirror? a hardware mirror has its writes pretty much at the same time. A data corruption will be perfectly mirrored to the second drive.
Anyone else use cold-swap trays for IDE drives for backups? I use 'em for switching OSes without using VMWare or multiple boots. Just swap out the primary IDE drive.
Of course, the ability to change the boot ID in SCSI is still the best way to go...
and when you look at it you get the very familiar Open With... dialog box. You think that they could have handled the file with no extention to default to notepad.
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FAQ-O-Matic looks mighty useful for a lazy person.
Several years ago, an employee in the US HR department of a large, international company HQ in the UK send out a large mailing announcing the new engineering hires. The mail format was cc:mail, the attachment was an excel document.
Columns in the excel file containing starting salary and moving expenses, etc where supposedly *hidden*. Well, when the excel file was opened by the recipient, the columns were no longer hidden.
Lots of existing staffers suddenly got raises.
This kind of thing happens.
http://hemos.net/wedding/DSC_0303.JPG
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not karma whoring - not worth moderating up.
just sifting slowly through the list
1. Evangelists within the organization
2. FEAR
3. they didn't want to be like Xerox
You've seen the banner ads with the Penguin being shot out of a cannon (Slashot) and others on UserFriendly. Click thru one of them and check out the product at http://www.omnis.net/products/studio/index.html
I am an Omnis user (against Oracle) although I'm not using Studio yet.
Native SQL drives for Oracle, Informix, DB2, etc. on Win32, MacOS and Linux.MySQL you have to hit through ODBC.
They also have a web client, so code that you use in the GUI can also be used on a web-based app server.
Lots of links listed here:
http://www.interactive-systems.com/omnis.html
In a Capitalist sense - nothing could be more "true" that providing a desired good in exchange for compensation.
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How does this make the guy a scumbag - just becuase he attempted to circumvent an arbitrary law that was eventually repealed?
forgive me for jaywalking
thats it - absolut and Grolsh just made the list!
..."
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"any one of you !@#$ touch my stuff, and I'll kill you
btw - its not a threat - just a stupid quote from a great stupid movie - just so that no one comes a knockin'
are you attempting to bring the concept of "MORALS" into this thread? EGADS!
>"and that many of the Bronfman owned hotels were really fronts for prostitution"
the idea or concept of privacy has nothing to do with value judgements like whether prostitution is right or wrong.
Unless someone has manged to secure a patent on "Services Rendered in Exchange for Compensation Whereby the Renumerator Experiences Pleasure Provided by the Compensated Party" - prostitution is handled by local (state) laws, and not involved in the entire DeCSS/DMCA/Napster issue. At least a prostitute (probably) doesn't care who you are, nor wants to track you for 'stickyness' - sorry - I couldn't resist that one - I mean repeat business.
Anyone know where I can get a summer-weight ski mask? I don't mean merely wearing your girlfriend's nylons over your face - just something more comfortable than a paper bag that doesn't give you severe hat-head.
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I'm interested in just wearing one around for the fuck of it - just to prove the point of having the right to wear one.
Funny thing is this - I used to live in an apartment complex where a substantial segment of the population wore garb that concealed their face entirely - with th eexception of a small slit to see through. My quote then was "that's cause they're all terrorists".
Well, even without citizenship, they were allowed to dress in such a fashion with risk of being harrased for concealing their identity.
enough - bored with my own post
for I have dined on honeydew and drank the milk of paradise
"give to caeser what is caeser's".
... just play the game.
The copmany donated computer is an extension of the company - its still company assets. Treat it as such. If it was a company car, would you drive it cross-country on vacation? If its a company cell phone, would you call 1-900 numbers with it?
Store your email and browser caches on removable media (mount ZIP or Jaz drives) for personal use - OR - use a removable hard drive tray.
It ain't that hard
Yes! that's it! Of Course!
Patent things that you don't want, such as 'A Novel Method of Informing Drones that its Time To Buy'.
Then we'll have the corporations trying to dismantle the Patent System. Beat them at their own game - and turn the patent over to FSF.
if its free, suck it down?
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Don't 'swipe' - use cash.
Get it from your own bank's ATM, as your bank already has all of your purchasing info anyway.
Hmm, Cell phone/GPS Maquerding?
its not paranoia when they really are out to get you
starting at cr1-hfc6.union1.nj.home.net: ...
15 hops to get there can't help much either.
I'm getting around 47 ms - but didn't hit that router - the Net must have adapted
How can the above post be 'Redundant' when its post #2?
This shows how moderators should not read everything from highlest to lowest, since all that does is provide positive feedback for those submissions that have already been bumped up.
currently moderating without my head up my ass
(I think)
Uh - if you stick fundz in a passbook account (you know - the thing that you used to use 20 years ago before ATM's - you get a non-zero rate of return without risk.
That's profit. Guaranteed return, without risk.
That should be illegal.
Fotunately, we have inflation. Lately, its been predictable (during the Carter Admin it wasn't).
Inflation is the cure for return without risk.
So: profit = reward for risking capital.
Without reward, who will face risk?
oversimplifications suck.
Generalized, sweeping oversimplifications imply (in my book) that you are simply a moron.
(which could be an oversimpification made by a moron).
Anyway, profits don't suck.
Recessions suck.
Depressions suck worse.
Centralized planning blows.
Can you imagine if Centralized Planning told you what distribution of Linux you could install?
But the books that you refer to - that you find useful? Were the shipped with the software, or were they written by a third party (e.g. O'Reilly)?
I believe that the vendor should default to providing online documentation, with the option to request printed manuals.
I bought 3 of those Sigma Designs Hollywood+ cards + Pioneer 10x DVD drives for christmas presents (for windows boxes).
So Mom doesn't have one. Wanna sell it? 50 bucks?
Wallace and Grommit never looked better than on a DVD with that Hollywood +. Even with a PII 266 the image was razor sharp. My nieces and nephews don't know about OS' and by the time that they're old enough to care - they won't have to.
So I don't have a DVD drive running now - but that doesn't mean that I want to inflict my views on friends & family that only run Windows (even though I installed RH 6.1 on their boxes).
http://www.omnis.net
t ml
http://www.omnis.net/linux/index.html
Omnis Software won an award at LinuxWorldExpo last August in the Development Tools category.
It will soon be shipping with dome of the full-price Linux distributions.
http://www.omnis.net/whatsnew/press/caldera24.h
Omnis Studio supports native DAMs against Oracle, DB2, Informix, ODBC, etc. data sources.
It supports the use of JavaBeans and ActiveX components. It already has a large international developer base.
But its not Open Source.
Paul
thanks for the deadly.org link.
Yum.
Even with a pair of Quantum Atlas V drives (27 MB/sec write rate), I doubt that any real performance gains will be measured running at 160 MB/sec burst rate over 80 MB/sec (U2W).
Now, when you've got a RAID 0 stripe 4 drives deep, that might show some potential for improvement.
So this one is definitely for the server room.
Those new IBM drives with up to a 16 MB cache - if you have 16 MB cache on each drive, plus 64 MB cache on the RAID controller, then the 80 MB/sec is potentially rate-limiting.
So - how many months until Ultra 4 320/m SCSI?
Paul
mirror?
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a hardware mirror has its writes pretty much at the same time. A data corruption will be perfectly mirrored to the second drive.
Anyone else use cold-swap trays for IDE drives for backups? I use 'em for switching OSes without using VMWare or multiple boots. Just swap out the primary IDE drive.
Of course, the ability to change the boot ID in SCSI is still the best way to go
Paul
and when you look at it you get the very familiar Open With ... dialog box.
You think that they could have handled the file with no extention to default to notepad.
"78.5 % slashdot pure?" what?
my experience level is "First Post"???
I've never tried for first post, and I don't intentionally flame.
UNTIL NOW.
don't waste your time on the Slashdot Purity Test.
Paul
RAID 5?
Pussy.
Run balls to the wall with RAID 0:
Its the only way to fly.
ok, so its a troll.
But I do run RAID 0 on my workstation
(and take full backups each night)