What? Damage? To a lens? From a light? What physical property would allow such a (cool) thing to happen (this isn't a megawatt laser!) I'm afraid not, but nice FUD!
You have no idea what people use to kick off a lawsuit... I've actually had a call center rep try to sue our company because the 'radiation from the monitor was damaging her karma'. A nutcase, but one who was experienced (but not necessarily successful) at worker's comp claims. That one made all the first responder training worth it right there...
Outbreaks were correlated with a particular individual coming back to the office with his laptop after working elsewhere. I think it must be something about the way he uses that system; what sites he goes to, probably; which causes it to be so riddled with viruses.
You would not believe the crap you have to deal with on hotel networks. If anyone is counting on the firewalls keep the network clean, guess again. This has to be at the machine level, each one an island. I keep the shield up on my laptop and (knock on wood) have yet to have an issue - but most of the broad band connections your typical road warrior deals with is a cesspool of worms, viruses, and other such nasties.
If the apps are tested and work with Windows, why change?
I agree this is just PR fluff, but that is one of the key bits. If the apps - often internally developed - don't just work in Vista, Novell has an opening. The SuSE/Crossover combo seems to work remarkably well for older VB stuff. If Microsoft 'end of life's' Win2K (usually by not releasing security fixes anymore ala NT4) and apps just don't work in the new OS, IT folks will be looking for solution. I know I've felt a bit of pain just going to XP-64 because many of my older programs did not handle parenthesis in the program file directories...
I do - but usually only to tune in the TV audio while working out. For music, I pack in my own. While doing the bike or treadmill, there are times where it is nice to be able to tune in CNN. Wish my shuffle could do both.
Once you scan the tests, you will have a graphic. You should be able to look at areas within that graphic and 'see' if it is dark. Take a look at imagemagick.org - an open source set of graphic manipulation tools that make this bone head easy in most of the popular languages. Make your life easy and place marks on the form so you can calibrate you fed the test in properly.
Umm... on Linux, you don't need a swapfile... so putting it in RAM is downright stupid...
Correct. The warning is if you did do a 'typical' RH, SuSE, or most any other distro - it sets up a swap file... If you do that and point it at the flash drive, you will trash it. A lesson learned the hard way by me, but may be obvious to you.
I've got one of the fanless 533mhz C3's on a VIA EDEN board. All the stuff you would need for a light server, uses about 7 watts, and ran most major Linux distros without any extra drivers as of a few years ago. Running tomcat to front end a MP3 collection for my car, so I guess counts. (grin) All told, the mainboard/CPU was ~100USD, and the total project was about ~250USD mostly due to building a DC to DC power supply that played nice with a 12V system.
I pushed things a bit further and replaced the 'power hungry' 4200-RPM laptop HDD with an IDE to Flash card adapter to save even more juice. Was trying for a bit to have a separate battery pack that could charge on solar cells. (no joy yet on that part) Just one word of warning if you go that route - make darn sure your swap file stays in RAM.
North America is no stranger to large, free roaming, wild cats. Most of the time, we get along just fine (read: leave each other alone).
Oh man... I was working as a cereal chemist in the summer/fall while I was on 'summer' break between my freshman and sophomore year of university. One of the things was collecting grain samples during harvest since the U of MN started later than North Dakota State University.
So I was collecting barley and wheat samples where ND, SD, and MN meet. Talked to the farmer and he pointed out the grain bin I could snag a sample. Drive out, pull out my bags, look up... and see what looked like tiger... about 300 yards out. Scrambled for my camera, but it was gone by the time I had the lens off. (better judgment off) So after a few minutes of nothing I get out of the car, climb to the top of the bin, collect my samples, and look around. No tiger. A couple more stops and I would go home for the weekend.
Walking back to the car -*POW*- I find myself face down in the dirt with something on my back purring. The lowest rumble I've ever heard/felt. Role over and am face to face with a cougar. It let me up and it is still there purring like crazy. I scratched it behind the ears like a cat.
The farmer drives up and looks with a bit of surprise. He then tells me the cougar was a pet when it was young, but broke its leg when it slid off the kitchen table. It was declawed, but (amazingly) ended up getting to big for an indoor pet even with the stunted growth. They let it go on the property. The farmer tells me usually it hides from strangers, but one of its favorite games was pounce. He shows me. Turns his back on the cat, and watched that thing go into hunt mode. Took a bunch of pictures with the cat, loaded up my samples, and about five minutes down the road just stopped the car because I was shaking so bad. Nothing like almost finding yourself lower on the food chain. The stunned silence was something else when I called in and gave a status update on how things went. Well, I got jumped by a cougar today...
Can anyone tell me if all four CDs are actually needed?
Yup. Mostly disk one and two, but I always seemed to pick an install that would require a few packages off the other two CD's. Best to download all the ISO images.
Alternative Minimum Tax laws are not just for the super rich. For those of us who happened to get in early enough into a dot com, work our asses off, go public, vest, exercise when they were high, hang onto the shares for 12 months for the capital gains taxes, watch the share price collapse in those 12 months, and got lucky enough to sell off before getting caught by some of the dumbest tax laws out there. I escaped by the skin of my teeth, and other I know did not.
SUNW at $85 was a deal. SUNW at $75 was even a better deal. SUNW at... Lots of new lessons on the stock market in general. Watched friends lose houses when trading margins.
PETS.com stock certificates made great white elephant gifts. Worth every penny. Just waiting for SCOX to get under $2 a share to do it again. It will be framed next to some of the other stinkers decorating my office.
Miss the beer in the soda machine. You can imagine our shock when a customer actually wanted a tab soda.
A Sun 440 is not needed for an email server. Makes for a lousy counter strike server too.
When the economy started exploding, the financials of the company were more important than the foosball table.
Remove the Diablo mule characters from CVS before you sell the company.
You can pour your heart and soul into work. Rarely matters. Never forget your family.
Amen, I'll second that - I've been paying around $300/year for the airport clubs. A bit of privacy, electrical outlets, free booze, coffee, assortment of snacks, showers, and wi-fi in a few locations. Looks like they added a perk for us with platinum status (fly 75K miles in a year) to get in on status, but you cannot count on it to work with all the locations.
I'll pick routes with layovers at those airports with free wi-fi. It may only be a few dollars (5-10) for a couple hours of connectivity, but I still have to expense that with Accounting. Very much a pain in the ass. With multipliers, I did over 600k miles last year... That translates into flight traffic revenue and meals since the clubs generally only have pretzels and other little snacks....
I had problems because 9.1 could not figure out how to use the gigabit Ethernet card in my laptop and had a less than reliable connection when doing it on another machine. Got it to work, but it was not click and drool by any stretch of the imagination. The newer cuts do pick up all my hardware - including wireless - but I did those installs with CD media and then went on-line to update.
Just updated my home system with a DVD-R, so I guess that would be an option. Hate to download multiple gigs of stuff when I could possibly get by with 700M or less for a basic install.
One of SuSE's biggest problem is they gave every excuse in the book (without stating the obvious about driving folks buy the boxed sets) about producing an ISO image for installing. The boot/FTP thing was a pain in the ass, the 'live' disks are not for someone using it normally. You could build your own image, but it was not easy. If anything comes out of the 'open' version, I hope it is distribution for install on one or more disks.
And, as long ask I'm dreaming - wouldn't it be nice to see a distribution get the minimal or basic installation only requires one (possibly two) CDs? I am so very tired of downloading five or more CDs just because they packaged 20megs of required files on each and every CD.
Not that I'm bitter...
With MS warning everyone to update the browser sniffing libs for the IE7 release, now is the time to make changes for those who are trying to do something where the client browser gets funky with specific HTML coding.
Money. How much is the customer willing to play? Screw the other bits. I like C++, but it is hard to find a lot of gigs out there doing it. PHP is common, but folks don't pay much for the code. Java - now there are folks who have fat wallets and easily seduced by shiny things. C#/ VB.NET/ASP.NET is somewhat in demand, but I've got the feeling it is going to end up 'priced' like it is easy.
it's impossible to eliminate falling launch debris
Impossible? Typical engineer thinking... of course there is a way. Thought these guys were about to take a page from the manual of some people I work with - just keep delaying the next flight until they EOL the shuttle. W00t! 100% no impacts. Bonuses all around...
I picked up another pair of the Hitachi Deskstar T7K250 250GB (SATA-II, 7200RPM, 8M) for about $125 each last week. Thought I saw one of the brick and mortars selling them for under 80USD after rebate this week (but may be the first generation SATA 250M drive)
Anyhow, in RAID 0 configuration, they are pretty snappy. I've got a pair of Rapors as my main OS/Program drive, and had these as my data/work drive. The heat difference is noticeable between the Raptors and the Deskstars. A bit of a performance difference (I do a lot of VMWare image work which hits the IO hard) but not enough to justify spending my personal cash to go 10K drives after seeing what these 'value' drives can do.
There is no way I'm logging into my DVR when I watch TV, but not sure how they would work the demographics without 'switching' roles. What my bride, child, and I watch are quite different. That said, can't think why I would ever actually watch a commercial just to rate it. Bad enough I can only 'fast forward' rather than jump ahead on my DirectTV DVR.
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What? Damage? To a lens? From a light? What physical property would allow such a (cool) thing to happen (this isn't a megawatt laser!) I'm afraid not, but nice FUD!
You have no idea what people use to kick off a lawsuit... I've actually had a call center rep try to sue our company because the 'radiation from the monitor was damaging her karma'. A nutcase, but one who was experienced (but not necessarily successful) at worker's comp claims. That one made all the first responder training worth it right there...
Outbreaks were correlated with a particular individual coming back to the office with his laptop after working elsewhere. I think it must be something about the way he uses that system; what sites he goes to, probably; which causes it to be so riddled with viruses.
You would not believe the crap you have to deal with on hotel networks. If anyone is counting on the firewalls keep the network clean, guess again. This has to be at the machine level, each one an island. I keep the shield up on my laptop and (knock on wood) have yet to have an issue - but most of the broad band connections your typical road warrior deals with is a cesspool of worms, viruses, and other such nasties.
If the apps are tested and work with Windows, why change?
I agree this is just PR fluff, but that is one of the key bits. If the apps - often internally developed - don't just work in Vista, Novell has an opening. The SuSE/Crossover combo seems to work remarkably well for older VB stuff. If Microsoft 'end of life's' Win2K (usually by not releasing security fixes anymore ala NT4) and apps just don't work in the new OS, IT folks will be looking for solution. I know I've felt a bit of pain just going to XP-64 because many of my older programs did not handle parenthesis in the program file directories...
I do - but usually only to tune in the TV audio while working out. For music, I pack in my own. While doing the bike or treadmill, there are times where it is nice to be able to tune in CNN. Wish my shuffle could do both.
Once you scan the tests, you will have a graphic. You should be able to look at areas within that graphic and 'see' if it is dark. Take a look at imagemagick.org - an open source set of graphic manipulation tools that make this bone head easy in most of the popular languages. Make your life easy and place marks on the form so you can calibrate you fed the test in properly.
Umm... on Linux, you don't need a swapfile... so putting it in RAM is downright stupid...
Correct. The warning is if you did do a 'typical' RH, SuSE, or most any other distro - it sets up a swap file... If you do that and point it at the flash drive, you will trash it. A lesson learned the hard way by me, but may be obvious to you.
I've got one of the fanless 533mhz C3's on a VIA EDEN board. All the stuff you would need for a light server, uses about 7 watts, and ran most major Linux distros without any extra drivers as of a few years ago. Running tomcat to front end a MP3 collection for my car, so I guess counts. (grin) All told, the mainboard/CPU was ~100USD, and the total project was about ~250USD mostly due to building a DC to DC power supply that played nice with a 12V system.
I pushed things a bit further and replaced the 'power hungry' 4200-RPM laptop HDD with an IDE to Flash card adapter to save even more juice. Was trying for a bit to have a separate battery pack that could charge on solar cells. (no joy yet on that part) Just one word of warning if you go that route - make darn sure your swap file stays in RAM.
The 35mm was shooting slide film. I'll post a link when I get back home in a couple days. Should be able to find a way to scan it.
North America is no stranger to large, free roaming, wild cats. Most of the time, we get along just fine (read: leave each other alone).
Oh man... I was working as a cereal chemist in the summer/fall while I was on 'summer' break between my freshman and sophomore year of university. One of the things was collecting grain samples during harvest since the U of MN started later than North Dakota State University.
So I was collecting barley and wheat samples where ND, SD, and MN meet. Talked to the farmer and he pointed out the grain bin I could snag a sample. Drive out, pull out my bags, look up... and see what looked like tiger... about 300 yards out. Scrambled for my camera, but it was gone by the time I had the lens off. (better judgment off) So after a few minutes of nothing I get out of the car, climb to the top of the bin, collect my samples, and look around. No tiger. A couple more stops and I would go home for the weekend.
Walking back to the car -*POW*- I find myself face down in the dirt with something on my back purring. The lowest rumble I've ever heard/felt. Role over and am face to face with a cougar. It let me up and it is still there purring like crazy. I scratched it behind the ears like a cat.
The farmer drives up and looks with a bit of surprise. He then tells me the cougar was a pet when it was young, but broke its leg when it slid off the kitchen table. It was declawed, but (amazingly) ended up getting to big for an indoor pet even with the stunted growth. They let it go on the property. The farmer tells me usually it hides from strangers, but one of its favorite games was pounce. He shows me. Turns his back on the cat, and watched that thing go into hunt mode. Took a bunch of pictures with the cat, loaded up my samples, and about five minutes down the road just stopped the car because I was shaking so bad. Nothing like almost finding yourself lower on the food chain. The stunned silence was something else when I called in and gave a status update on how things went. Well, I got jumped by a cougar today...
Can anyone tell me if all four CDs are actually needed?
Yup. Mostly disk one and two, but I always seemed to pick an install that would require a few packages off the other two CD's. Best to download all the ISO images.
Alternative Minimum Tax laws are not just for the super rich. For those of us who happened to get in early enough into a dot com, work our asses off, go public, vest, exercise when they were high, hang onto the shares for 12 months for the capital gains taxes, watch the share price collapse in those 12 months, and got lucky enough to sell off before getting caught by some of the dumbest tax laws out there. I escaped by the skin of my teeth, and other I know did not.
SUNW at $85 was a deal. SUNW at $75 was even a better deal. SUNW at... Lots of new lessons on the stock market in general. Watched friends lose houses when trading margins.
PETS.com stock certificates made great white elephant gifts. Worth every penny. Just waiting for SCOX to get under $2 a share to do it again. It will be framed next to some of the other stinkers decorating my office.
Miss the beer in the soda machine. You can imagine our shock when a customer actually wanted a tab soda.
A Sun 440 is not needed for an email server. Makes for a lousy counter strike server too.
When the economy started exploding, the financials of the company were more important than the foosball table.
Remove the Diablo mule characters from CVS before you sell the company.
You can pour your heart and soul into work. Rarely matters. Never forget your family.
Amen, I'll second that - I've been paying around $300/year for the airport clubs. A bit of privacy, electrical outlets, free booze, coffee, assortment of snacks, showers, and wi-fi in a few locations. Looks like they added a perk for us with platinum status (fly 75K miles in a year) to get in on status, but you cannot count on it to work with all the locations.
I'll pick routes with layovers at those airports with free wi-fi. It may only be a few dollars (5-10) for a couple hours of connectivity, but I still have to expense that with Accounting. Very much a pain in the ass. With multipliers, I did over 600k miles last year... That translates into flight traffic revenue and meals since the clubs generally only have pretzels and other little snacks....
Penny wise, pound foolish.
I had problems because 9.1 could not figure out how to use the gigabit Ethernet card in my laptop and had a less than reliable connection when doing it on another machine. Got it to work, but it was not click and drool by any stretch of the imagination. The newer cuts do pick up all my hardware - including wireless - but I did those installs with CD media and then went on-line to update.
as of two days ago... Wish they had made a /. story when they did that. Thanks for the link!
Just updated my home system with a DVD-R, so I guess that would be an option. Hate to download multiple gigs of stuff when I could possibly get by with 700M or less for a basic install.
One of SuSE's biggest problem is they gave every excuse in the book (without stating the obvious about driving folks buy the boxed sets) about producing an ISO image for installing. The boot/FTP thing was a pain in the ass, the 'live' disks are not for someone using it normally. You could build your own image, but it was not easy. If anything comes out of the 'open' version, I hope it is distribution for install on one or more disks.
And, as long ask I'm dreaming - wouldn't it be nice to see a distribution get the minimal or basic installation only requires one (possibly two) CDs? I am so very tired of downloading five or more CDs just because they packaged 20megs of required files on each and every CD.
Not that I'm bitter...
With MS warning everyone to update the browser sniffing libs for the IE7 release, now is the time to make changes for those who are trying to do something where the client browser gets funky with specific HTML coding.
Money. How much is the customer willing to play? Screw the other bits. I like C++, but it is hard to find a lot of gigs out there doing it. PHP is common, but folks don't pay much for the code. Java - now there are folks who have fat wallets and easily seduced by shiny things. C#/ VB.NET/ASP.NET is somewhat in demand, but I've got the feeling it is going to end up 'priced' like it is easy.
Just switched to Sun from Dell for some low end rack mount x86 servers. Check these and see if they work out for you. Did for me...
it's impossible to eliminate falling launch debris
Impossible? Typical engineer thinking... of course there is a way. Thought these guys were about to take a page from the manual of some people I work with - just keep delaying the next flight until they EOL the shuttle. W00t! 100% no impacts. Bonuses all around...
I picked up another pair of the Hitachi Deskstar T7K250 250GB (SATA-II, 7200RPM, 8M) for about $125 each last week. Thought I saw one of the brick and mortars selling them for under 80USD after rebate this week (but may be the first generation SATA 250M drive)
Anyhow, in RAID 0 configuration, they are pretty snappy. I've got a pair of Rapors as my main OS/Program drive, and had these as my data/work drive. The heat difference is noticeable between the Raptors and the Deskstars. A bit of a performance difference (I do a lot of VMWare image work which hits the IO hard) but not enough to justify spending my personal cash to go 10K drives after seeing what these 'value' drives can do.
Now I have to figure out how to actually set the clock in the car. Today, I just wait it out for half a year for things to sync up.
(kidding)
Good grief... I should know better than to post after a 'quick' stop at the bar.
As for the sequence, you are half right. Single points only for me...
Actual fact: they meant to say "HP Invebt" -- the meaning of which is unknown.
I think it means the domin name has not been taken yet? Just like those clever folks who name drugs.
There is no way I'm logging into my DVR when I watch TV, but not sure how they would work the demographics without 'switching' roles. What my bride, child, and I watch are quite different. That said, can't think why I would ever actually watch a commercial just to rate it. Bad enough I can only 'fast forward' rather than jump ahead on my DirectTV DVR.