Should we have 911 via e-mail then? What's the difference between VoIP and e-mail? (Oh, I know... you can access someone's VoIP phone from the traditional network. OK, so what.)
Excuuuuuse me? There are a variety of Linux GUIs that don't suck. All of them are great, if you know how to use a computer. You can't drive a car without training; why should a computer be different?
Anyway, the worst GUI ever is Windows (from a usability and even eye-candy perspective)... and I admit that the OSS folks seem to be intent on cloning it. I don't use GNOME or KDE simply because they are trying to reimplement Windows (which is a terrible terrbile thing to copy... do everything exactly opposite instead!)
I think GNOME and KDE need to start innovating rather than copying. OS X is nice because Apple comes up with new GUI ideas for each release. OSS needs to do this too. (Until then, I'm happy with either my Mac or XFCE on Linux. All I need are xterms and emacs anyway:)
I refuse to show ID when purchasing alcohol. Why should I have to show my papers to anyone that asks just to prove that I'm not committing a crime!?*
Unfortunately, state law forbids them from selling me anything. Solution? Import from out of state. Thank you Internet!
*(Oh, I forgot to mention that I'm only 20, so technically I am committing a heinous horrible crime against society. When I actually AM 21, however, I will continue to refuse to show ID.)
The `and' is unnecessary, you dope. `And' can start a sentence when the author wants to emphasize a point like: uberdave is an idiot because his example sentence was wrong. And stupid, at that.:)
The `and' is there for emphasis and style; it is not grammatically correct.
> and if i am not mistaken the os on them is linux based
You're mistaken. PalmOS is nowhere even close to Linux. It doesn't have the concept of files, and only one program can run at once. Please don't get me started on what a BAD OS it is.
The next version (to be released concurrently with Duke Nukem Forever) may be Linux based, though. We'll see...
Funny. To solve this "problem", I just look at a map and listen to traffic problems on the radio. Requires nearly no brainpower.
Actually, I don't drive... I take public transportation. But I always end up giving driving directions to family/friends that come to visit my city apartment.
(You're the one driving... YOU should know the streets. How can it be that I, who has never been behind the wheel, can tell you how to get from anywhere to anywhere else!?)
Why not have processes append to the buffer (which is a shared memory region) and have the video card poll this buffer every n milliseconds (say, 60 times a second if the refresh rate is 60Hz). Then there would be no context switch, just writes to memory (which is relatively speedy).
I don't know if this is effective or possible, though:)
What would stop a router (say a Linux box) from authenticating with 802.1x and then serving that connection to a bunch of other machines, including sniffing all the traffic and sending it, via a secure tunnel, to competitor.com?
Try again:)
Actually, 802.1x is a pretty good idea. We use it at school to control access to the wireless network. That way when some wireless dude starts spreading viruses we can suspend all of his accounts and force him to clean his f-ing machine. (It's drastic in my mind, but apparently "ODYSSEY"*, the server program, ties in at the lowest level of LDAP and suspending the LDAP account suspends the e-mail/shell accounts too. AD then auths to LDAP, so it kills AD too. Fixing all that would involve work from a state employee, which is the only type of person that does less work than Peter Gibbons.)
* Never ever buy this product. It uses an "open standard" that only they support. Open, riiiiight. They also promised that if we bought the server that they would give us a mac and palm os client. Several years later...they don't exist. Windows only. AND, The windows client is a HORRIBLE HORRIBLE HORRIBLE non-working piece of fucking shit. It's literally 90% of the walk-in support requests we have. And it often takes an hour just to configure the thing properly. (The Cisco APs that we use are pretty flaky, too.)
Fortunately Apple stepped up and includes support for Odyssey's shitty protocol (TTLS) in Panther and Tiger. But that doesn't negate the fact that the Odyssey people blatantly lied to us.
Your point still holds: the emptor should have an inspection performed.
It's my right as an American to burn down my house if I want to. Besides, what's the difference between faulty wiring burning down my house and a carelessly discarded cigarette doing the same? Should inspectors come by your house every night to make sure you're not smoking in bed?
"With dozen of different distributions the Linux community is so diffuse that the power or significance of any specific entity is severally limited."
That's the whole fucking point of Linux.
I know this makes it hard for joe luser to pick a distro to run an enterprise on, but, like any major software purchasing/deployment scenerio, you need to have intelligent people making these decisions. If you want to use Linux, hire someone who has a favorite distro and use that. They're really all the same, minus some extra shiny icons.
Wow. It is about time to stop buying Cisco products. Their idea of security is calling people who help them make it better "terrorists". No fucking thanks.
I will join. I don't even want to get started on how much I hate them, so I won't. Let's just say that every time I buy something of theirs I get royally burned. Every. Damn. Time. (Needless to say, I don't buy their shit anymore.)
There exist 66,000 ideograms (maybe), but only 700 or so are in common use (in Simplified Chinese), compared to 2000 in Japanese.
The remaining characters are _based_ on other characters, so a native speaker or someone well-versed in the language can guess the pronunciation and meaning of one of these obscure characters.
Really, every language is complicated and most humans are smart enough to understand it. Personally, I like English how it is. I don't have problems with spelling OR grammar. (Although my slashdot posts obviously aren't edited and revised to the point that other things I write are.:)
Actually, I think the thermal cubes talked about below are a much better solution. And less expensive.
The multimeter solution is pretty geeky though. (And you can... uh... measure the AC line voltage and have the server notify you when the power goes out:P)
1) Get a digital multimeter with RS232 and a temperature probe. 2) Connect it to a small, well-cooled, Linux box (Mini/ITX would be good) 3) Write a quick perl script to poll the DMM every 10 seconds (or something). 4) If current_temp > max_temp { send_mail(); }
It's cheap, AND you get to play with Mini ITX linux boxes at work:)
Then you call the cops and the University turns over the IP logs. And you know which room it came from.
At my school, you have to log in with a valid username and password via 802.1x before packets will be routed for you (be it wired, wireless, or in the dorm room). They would have the name of the person who took it. That's probably enough to get it back:)
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Speakeasy provides DSL without a phone line. It's $5/month extra.
Should we have 911 via e-mail then? What's the difference between VoIP and e-mail? (Oh, I know... you can access someone's VoIP phone from the traditional network. OK, so what.)
Excuuuuuse me? There are a variety of Linux GUIs that don't suck. All of them are great, if you know how to use a computer. You can't drive a car without training; why should a computer be different?
:)
Anyway, the worst GUI ever is Windows (from a usability and even eye-candy perspective)... and I admit that the OSS folks seem to be intent on cloning it. I don't use GNOME or KDE simply because they are trying to reimplement Windows (which is a terrible terrbile thing to copy... do everything exactly opposite instead!)
I think GNOME and KDE need to start innovating rather than copying. OS X is nice because Apple comes up with new GUI ideas for each release. OSS needs to do this too. (Until then, I'm happy with either my Mac or XFCE on Linux. All I need are xterms and emacs anyway
I refuse to show ID when purchasing alcohol. Why should I have to show my papers to anyone that asks just to prove that I'm not committing a crime!?*
Unfortunately, state law forbids them from selling me anything. Solution? Import from out of state. Thank you Internet!
*(Oh, I forgot to mention that I'm only 20, so technically I am committing a heinous horrible crime against society. When I actually AM 21, however, I will continue to refuse to show ID.)
It hasn't been over 100F in Chicago since July 30, 1999.
:)
But it is hot out, I'll give you that
The `and' is unnecessary, you dope. `And' can start a sentence when the author wants to emphasize a point like: uberdave is an idiot because his example sentence was wrong. And stupid, at that. :)
The `and' is there for emphasis and style; it is not grammatically correct.
Yeah, I get $7.39/hour and we "charge"* $35/hour minimum.
* Of course it's not real money, it's a sheet of paper that says "so and so department has allocated $35 to computer repair expenses".
> and if i am not mistaken the os on them is linux based
You're mistaken. PalmOS is nowhere even close to Linux. It doesn't have the concept of files, and only one program can run at once. Please don't get me started on what a BAD OS it is.
The next version (to be released concurrently with Duke Nukem Forever) may be Linux based, though. We'll see...
Funny. To solve this "problem", I just look at a map and listen to traffic problems on the radio. Requires nearly no brainpower.
Actually, I don't drive... I take public transportation. But I always end up giving driving directions to family/friends that come to visit my city apartment.
(You're the one driving... YOU should know the streets. How can it be that I, who has never been behind the wheel, can tell you how to get from anywhere to anywhere else!?)
Why not have processes append to the buffer (which is a shared memory region) and have the video card poll this buffer every n milliseconds (say, 60 times a second if the refresh rate is 60Hz). Then there would be no context switch, just writes to memory (which is relatively speedy).
:)
I don't know if this is effective or possible, though
What would stop a router (say a Linux box) from authenticating with 802.1x and then serving that connection to a bunch of other machines, including sniffing all the traffic and sending it, via a secure tunnel, to competitor.com?
:)
Try again
Actually, 802.1x is a pretty good idea. We use it at school to control access to the wireless network. That way when some wireless dude starts spreading viruses we can suspend all of his accounts and force him to clean his f-ing machine. (It's drastic in my mind, but apparently "ODYSSEY"*, the server program, ties in at the lowest level of LDAP and suspending the LDAP account suspends the e-mail/shell accounts too. AD then auths to LDAP, so it kills AD too. Fixing all that would involve work from a state employee, which is the only type of person that does less work than Peter Gibbons.)
* Never ever buy this product. It uses an "open standard" that only they support. Open, riiiiight. They also promised that if we bought the server that they would give us a mac and palm os client. Several years later...they don't exist. Windows only. AND, The windows client is a HORRIBLE HORRIBLE HORRIBLE non-working piece of fucking shit. It's literally 90% of the walk-in support requests we have. And it often takes an hour just to configure the thing properly. (The Cisco APs that we use are pretty flaky, too.)
Fortunately Apple stepped up and includes support for Odyssey's shitty protocol (TTLS) in Panther and Tiger. But that doesn't negate the fact that the Odyssey people blatantly lied to us.
Your point still holds: the emptor should have an inspection performed.
It's my right as an American to burn down my house if I want to. Besides, what's the difference between faulty wiring burning down my house and a carelessly discarded cigarette doing the same? Should inspectors come by your house every night to make sure you're not smoking in bed?
Exactly.
"With dozen of different distributions the Linux community is so diffuse that the power or significance of any specific entity is severally limited."
That's the whole fucking point of Linux.
I know this makes it hard for joe luser to pick a distro to run an enterprise on, but, like any major software purchasing/deployment scenerio, you need to have intelligent people making these decisions. If you want to use Linux, hire someone who has a favorite distro and use that. They're really all the same, minus some extra shiny icons.
Thank you, Mr. Obvious. That was his point :)
Good point. Fuck these people. If they don't want wind energy then maybe we can burn their corpses instead. Good riddance.
Sorry to hear about your shift key.
... three periods. You only need one! ;)
Also, I like how you can't put a period after "St." but can end every sentence with
Wow. It is about time to stop buying Cisco products. Their idea of security is calling people who help them make it better "terrorists". No fucking thanks.
I will join. I don't even want to get started on how much I hate them, so I won't. Let's just say that every time I buy something of theirs I get royally burned. Every. Damn. Time. (Needless to say, I don't buy their shit anymore.)
> my boss is a little flexible when it comes to coming in at 9, leaving at 5:30
Isn't the workday 9-5?
That's not a recursive acronym. "Finf is not free" would be a recursive acronym. (As are GNU and WINE.)
There exist 66,000 ideograms (maybe), but only 700 or so are in common use (in Simplified Chinese), compared to 2000 in Japanese.
:)
The remaining characters are _based_ on other characters, so a native speaker or someone well-versed in the language can guess the pronunciation and meaning of one of these obscure characters.
Really, every language is complicated and most humans are smart enough to understand it. Personally, I like English how it is. I don't have problems with spelling OR grammar. (Although my slashdot posts obviously aren't edited and revised to the point that other things I write are.
Actually, I think the thermal cubes talked about below are a much better solution. And less expensive.
:P)
The multimeter solution is pretty geeky though. (And you can... uh... measure the AC line voltage and have the server notify you when the power goes out
1) Get a digital multimeter with RS232 and a temperature probe.
:)
2) Connect it to a small, well-cooled, Linux box (Mini/ITX would be good)
3) Write a quick perl script to poll the DMM every 10 seconds (or something).
4) If current_temp > max_temp { send_mail(); }
It's cheap, AND you get to play with Mini ITX linux boxes at work
Most people aren't concerned about using their computer when they can be having sex instead.
Oh no, she was doing homework with a guy friend. Maybe even her BOYFRIEND! Heaven forbid!!!!
Then you call the cops and the University turns over the IP logs. And you know which room it came from.
:)
At my school, you have to log in with a valid username and password via 802.1x before packets will be routed for you (be it wired, wireless, or in the dorm room). They would have the name of the person who took it. That's probably enough to get it back