Schneier, "Applied Cryptography" -- this is a must have if you ever do any type of crypto work, from munging files to hard encryption. Good for those who really want to know what the PKI thing is all about, and then some.
I found my Dual AMD box to be as good, if not better from a never going down standpoint. Same goes for my gaming boxes. After building a bunch of systems, however, I do have one major beef with AMD...
For the love of god, put a coat of nickel or something on the CPU!
I chipped a couple when rev 1 of the Chrome Orb came out. Fool me once... Things are a little better these days because the quality heat sinks - with paranoid mode on - are less likely to crush a CPU than when folks were trying to strap a socket 370 heat sink on an Athlon, but I still feel like it is a crap shoot every time I have to remove the CPU. I end up trying to stay about the $100 mark for CPU's as a result. (Yes, the MP's cost me much more, and I was very nervous when I mounted them)
Yes, but lord gates probably has one of those +5 black bladed, soul sucking two handers. Don't even get me started on the armor or ring of protection +3 vs DOJ....
Reviewing my portfolio, I respectfully submit things were going to hell in a hand basket starting in the spring before Bush took office. We were well into a tulip market.
I do think Execs would think twice about shady deals if there were a chance of ending up in a federal "pound you in the ass" prison, however.... Its easy to do the risk management, such and such will cost us this if we get caught. But really, tell me what price tag you would put on x months role-playing deliverance?
After all the success stories about the war on drugs acquisitioning peoples possessions - guilty or not, a hard-core seizure policy would be a bad thing, IMHO.
Before you ask - no, you can't just mirror the artwork. Right-handed characters would become left-handed, Japan would have people driving on the wrong side of the road, all signs and writing would be backwards, etc.
Hey now... they don't drive on the wrong side of the road if you use a mirror -- they are British.
So instead of having software companies and hordes or programmers, companies can get their own software by feeding in to the requirements to this database, and it spits out the necessary code.
I use to fear just that. Things like Access and Front Page made me think the user could possibly do just that. Has not happened yet... Furthermore, they never got the the requirements down enough to use a system that turned requirments to code.
TNT already does banner ads - adding black bars to the top and bottom, then logos, then 'what's next' info, and more as time goes by. If the user has to actually interact to get the bloody thing off the screen, there is going to be a peasant revolt.
My dish has several channels that have an 'info' button. I keep disabling it, but since I won't run a phone line unless I can't see the video I loose the settings every few months. I think I pressed it a couple times - now I wish I could just make it go away. There will be much weeping and gnashing of teeth if I have to actually click to make the add go away. Actually, it would drive me to make an automatic cancel remote... more hardware... I'm sure the appropriations committee will approve the funding.
Call me stupid, but I had a hell of a time trying to figure this one out. Connect and Start were obvious, but create an AI opponent was not. There were all sorts of settings, tons of FAQ's, everything I wanted to know about modifying the rule engine, nothing about setting up a simple stand alone - I'm stuck for 7 hours in an airport - game.
Want another bonehead thing that you probably know, that I struggled with? Loading a saved game. Tons of options for Saving a game, nothing about Loading a game. No way that I could find from loading via the KDE shortcut loaded server console. For the rest of us mere mortals, you have to specify the file and a flag when you start up the server in an xterm.
Perhaps there is great info on-line, but I did not have a net connection. It was a piece of cake once I figured it out... One should not have to jump into source code just to play a bloody game, however. The help settings could use some more help.
Not to dis, but these are the type of issues software developers need to think about when they are programming for the masses. How many folks fired up freeciv, played a game where they were the only person, and just gave up?
The The truth is even more frightening... most physicians, or heath care providers if you want to use a more derogatory term are some of the most technical luddites out there. I've worked for companies where they gave doctors PC's, another company gave the doctors handhelds -- all with software that really gives you a leg up on helping the patient. Most never even turned them on. As a younger crowed moves in, it is not quite as bad as the boomers practicing.
The real training most folks get for the MD is not hard-core sciences. Sure, there is some... but most of the training in the people skills. A lot of time is spent learning how to interview and deduce what is wrong. (minor rant) The liability issues have not helped things any, but that is another issue. I suspect the I'm never wrong bit is due more to lawsuits.
Start the server, start the client, click join on the client.
from the server console,
)create youraiplayernamehere -- adds easy ai player )set endyear yyyy - sets the year the game will end. Worth bumping this up the first few times you play. )start
For those trying to teach Java to kids, RoboCode is a great way to get them interested. They may not care about hello world in an applet, but pasting other folks tanks makes event handling fun.
I would gladly locate the national nuclear waste repository within 1/2 mile of my home if the alternative is to leave it where it is.
I'll second that... we have our spent fuel parked in minneapolis (well a few miles out, but it makes a great nav point for VFR on the way home). Park the stuff on clay soil w/ water nearby or a stable salt mine... this one is easy.
As for the life span of this stuff, we may not have the technology today (we do, but folks don't want that type of reactor), but it will get there. This "waste" may be an important fuel source in ~50-200 years when oil extracton gets too pricey.
Gnome on Solaris is the thing that I can't wait for it to be bundled with... (I know it can be done today, but I cannot hork the box just yet -- and I always do). Nothing makes me jump back to command line habbits like the default Solaris windows manager. Shudder.... Gnome is the sister you really were trying to go out with.
It is soooo close. Wish version 9 shipped with it as an install option.
Even though all the major browsers are considered to be up to snuff on standards compliance, some Web authors still find it easier to code directly to IE--and test only with IE--rather than to open standards.
Ah, but what version of IE? IMHO, just because is works in 5.0 and 5.5 does not mean it will work in 6.0. Service packs have a huge impact as well. From a testing standpoint, this is STILL a huge pain.
I find if it works in Mozilla, it will probably work in most everything. IE tends to be too forgiving, rendering bad or malformed HTML too well. For that reason alone, I prefer to test with Mozilla first -- then a cut or two of IE...
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1.5B in paypall stock -- Original box, reciept. (Sold by they same folks selling empty PS2 boxes last year)
I have one of these on the way for my car, but I thought I could add a couple more notes and links.
There are two via versions, green box (w/o fan) and blue box (w/fan). I picked up the VIA EPIA Eden 5000 Mini-ITX Motherboard that comes with a fanless ~533mhz cpu, 2.8W power, 17x17cm footprint, lan, video, sound, svideo, usb, and serial ports for about $100 USD. The 666mhz fanless version should be out soon. Uses a standard ATX PS, but it does not have to be very big. Nice driver support for Linux and Windows. About $10USD for a 800mhz C3 that needs a small fan.
Anyhow, project links at mini-itx.com, which has links to vendors, reviewers, case builders, etc.
Why bother? Its gone, sold, IP traded for cash. He knew what hw was doing when it was traded for money. If he really wants to do something, GnuPGP would probably welcome him with open arms...
Couple of days back US warplanes dropped a bomb on a marriage party in Afghanistan killing over 50. And there hasnt been more than a couple of columns in the western media about the whole story
I beg to differ -- I've had the news networks running in the background all day as I work from home. All of the stations seem to be nothing more than detailed speculation on what happened...
After spending a week in Paris, I wish I could get the non-us version of CNN however.
Ah, it is not quite that evil... this is very much like IBM's Visual Age for Java -- handled things at the method level, cool smalltalk jvm with unholy debug tricks, and many versioning tools. It was very hard to switch into that type of thinking, however. It is worth noting IBM scrapped VisualAge and are betting the farm on Eclipse to power their Websphere studio, so this does not seem so strange from my view. If they add the debugging they had in VA, this should rock.
Wish other EJB containers were supported better for those of us who pound code for Weblogic, Websphere, Jboss, etc... Great if you are doing Websphere (with the Websphere add on), not had very much luck with Weblogic, a little better with Jboss.
the secret menu on your 600a Apex player and turn it off. I jumped to circut city when I saw the remote control trick posted on slashdot a while back...
Slashdot Mirror
Schneier, "Applied Cryptography" -- this is a must have if you ever do any type of crypto work, from munging files to hard encryption. Good for those who really want to know what the PKI thing is all about, and then some.
I found my Dual AMD box to be as good, if not better from a never going down standpoint. Same goes for my gaming boxes. After building a bunch of systems, however, I do have one major beef with AMD...
... Things are a little better these days because the quality heat sinks - with paranoid mode on - are less likely to crush a CPU than when folks were trying to strap a socket 370 heat sink on an Athlon, but I still feel like it is a crap shoot every time I have to remove the CPU. I end up trying to stay about the $100 mark for CPU's as a result. (Yes, the MP's cost me much more, and I was very nervous when I mounted them)
For the love of god, put a coat of nickel or something on the CPU!
I chipped a couple when rev 1 of the Chrome Orb came out. Fool me once
The sword cuts both ways, Billy.
Yes, but lord gates probably has one of those +5 black bladed, soul sucking two handers. Don't even get me started on the armor or ring of protection +3 vs DOJ....
Reviewing my portfolio, I respectfully submit things were going to hell in a hand basket starting in the spring before Bush took office. We were well into a tulip market.
I do think Execs would think twice about shady deals if there were a chance of ending up in a federal "pound you in the ass" prison, however.... Its easy to do the risk management, such and such will cost us this if we get caught. But really, tell me what price tag you would put on x months role-playing deliverance?
After all the success stories about the war on drugs acquisitioning peoples possessions - guilty or not, a hard-core seizure policy would be a bad thing, IMHO.
Before you ask - no, you can't just mirror the artwork. Right-handed characters would become left-handed, Japan would have people driving on the wrong side of the road, all signs and writing would be backwards, etc.
Hey now... they don't drive on the wrong side of the road if you use a mirror -- they are British.
So instead of having software companies and hordes or programmers, companies can get their own software by feeding in to the requirements to this database, and it spits out the necessary code.
I use to fear just that. Things like Access and Front Page made me think the user could possibly do just that. Has not happened yet... Furthermore, they never got the the requirements down enough to use a system that turned requirments to code.
as long as they are pop-under. (grin)
TNT already does banner ads - adding black bars to the top and bottom, then logos, then 'what's next' info, and more as time goes by. If the user has to actually interact to get the bloody thing off the screen, there is going to be a peasant revolt.
My dish has several channels that have an 'info' button. I keep disabling it, but since I won't run a phone line unless I can't see the video I loose the settings every few months. I think I pressed it a couple times - now I wish I could just make it go away. There will be much weeping and gnashing of teeth if I have to actually click to make the add go away. Actually, it would drive me to make an automatic cancel remote... more hardware... I'm sure the appropriations committee will approve the funding.
Call me stupid, but I had a hell of a time trying to figure this one out. Connect and Start were obvious, but create an AI opponent was not. There were all sorts of settings, tons of FAQ's, everything I wanted to know about modifying the rule engine, nothing about setting up a simple stand alone - I'm stuck for 7 hours in an airport - game.
Want another bonehead thing that you probably know, that I struggled with? Loading a saved game. Tons of options for Saving a game, nothing about Loading a game. No way that I could find from loading via the KDE shortcut loaded server console. For the rest of us mere mortals, you have to specify the file and a flag when you start up the server in an xterm.
Perhaps there is great info on-line, but I did not have a net connection. It was a piece of cake once I figured it out... One should not have to jump into source code just to play a bloody game, however. The help settings could use some more help.
Not to dis, but these are the type of issues software developers need to think about when they are programming for the masses. How many folks fired up freeciv, played a game where they were the only person, and just gave up?
The The truth is even more frightening... most physicians, or heath care providers if you want to use a more derogatory term are some of the most technical luddites out there. I've worked for companies where they gave doctors PC's, another company gave the doctors handhelds -- all with software that really gives you a leg up on helping the patient. Most never even turned them on. As a younger crowed moves in, it is not quite as bad as the boomers practicing.
The real training most folks get for the MD is not hard-core sciences. Sure, there is some... but most of the training in the people skills. A lot of time is spent learning how to interview and deduce what is wrong. (minor rant) The liability issues have not helped things any, but that is another issue. I suspect the I'm never wrong bit is due more to lawsuits.
A few tips if you want to play on your own...
Start the server, start the client, click join on the client.
from the server console,
)create youraiplayernamehere -- adds easy ai player
)set endyear yyyy - sets the year the game will end. Worth bumping this up the first few times you play.
)start
For those trying to teach Java to kids, RoboCode is a great way to get them interested. They may not care about hello world in an applet, but pasting other folks tanks makes event handling fun.
I wonder what it sounds like to hear 100 Japanese rocket scientists screaming "Doh!" at the same time...
When Mothra showed up?
I'm glad I don't live in Nevada.
I would gladly locate the national nuclear waste repository within 1/2 mile of my home if the alternative is to leave it where it is.
I'll second that... we have our spent fuel parked in minneapolis (well a few miles out, but it makes a great nav point for VFR on the way home). Park the stuff on clay soil w/ water nearby or a stable salt mine... this one is easy.
As for the life span of this stuff, we may not have the technology today (we do, but folks don't want that type of reactor), but it will get there. This "waste" may be an important fuel source in ~50-200 years when oil extracton gets too pricey.
Gnome on Solaris is the thing that I can't wait for it to be bundled with... (I know it can be done today, but I cannot hork the box just yet -- and I always do). Nothing makes me jump back to command line habbits like the default Solaris windows manager. Shudder.... Gnome is the sister you really were trying to go out with.
It is soooo close. Wish version 9 shipped with it as an install option.
Even though all the major browsers are considered to be up to snuff on standards compliance, some Web authors still find it easier to code directly to IE--and test only with IE--rather than to open standards.
Ah, but what version of IE? IMHO, just because is works in 5.0 and 5.5 does not mean it will work in 6.0. Service packs have a huge impact as well. From a testing standpoint, this is STILL a huge pain.
I find if it works in Mozilla, it will probably work in most everything. IE tends to be too forgiving, rendering bad or malformed HTML too well. For that reason alone, I prefer to test with Mozilla first -- then a cut or two of IE...
1.5B in paypall stock -- Original box, reciept. (Sold by they same folks selling empty PS2 boxes last year)
I have one of these on the way for my car, but I thought I could add a couple more notes and links.
There are two via versions, green box (w/o fan) and blue box (w/fan). I picked up the VIA EPIA Eden 5000 Mini-ITX Motherboard that comes with a fanless ~533mhz cpu, 2.8W power, 17x17cm footprint, lan, video, sound, svideo, usb, and serial ports for about $100 USD. The 666mhz fanless version should be out soon. Uses a standard ATX PS, but it does not have to be very big. Nice driver support for Linux and Windows. About $10USD for a 800mhz C3 that needs a small fan.
Anyhow, project links at mini-itx.com, which has links to vendors, reviewers, case builders, etc.
Why bother? Its gone, sold, IP traded for cash. He knew what hw was doing when it was traded for money. If he really wants to do something, GnuPGP would probably welcome him with open arms...
Couple of days back US warplanes dropped a bomb on a marriage party in Afghanistan killing over 50. And there hasnt been more than a couple of columns in the western media about the whole story
I beg to differ -- I've had the news networks running in the background all day as I work from home. All of the stations seem to be nothing more than detailed speculation on what happened...
After spending a week in Paris, I wish I could get the non-us version of CNN however.
That's a really weird way of saying $200,000: "nearly a quarter of a million dollar"
Damn the hard drive marketing folks. If you figure 1024 rather than 1000, it comes much closer...
Reporting on a days worth of logs on the 'sex' category generated a 150 page (small print) report, covering about 50 employees.
Make sure you filter out your IP address before you run the reports next time (grin)
Ah, it is not quite that evil... this is very much like IBM's Visual Age for Java -- handled things at the method level, cool smalltalk jvm with unholy debug tricks, and many versioning tools. It was very hard to switch into that type of thinking, however. It is worth noting IBM scrapped VisualAge and are betting the farm on Eclipse to power their Websphere studio, so this does not seem so strange from my view. If they add the debugging they had in VA, this should rock.
Wish other EJB containers were supported better for those of us who pound code for Weblogic, Websphere, Jboss, etc... Great if you are doing Websphere (with the Websphere add on), not had very much luck with Weblogic, a little better with Jboss.
**Anyone who saw the demo dropped their jaws in awe.
However, the *point* was something entirely different.
So you saw the booth babes too?
the secret menu on your 600a Apex player and turn it off. I jumped to circut city when I saw the remote control trick posted on slashdot a while back...
Got to be a typo --- if it was a glitch, it would read December 19100 (grin)