I've had this experience, also. After living in close quarters for many years with a computer (or 3) whirring quietly to it self for 24 hours a day, I found that I could not live without it.
Once I moved into a new apartment where (ghasp) there was enough room to create a dedicated home office, and move the computers out of the bedroom, I had a ghastly time readjusting to the sound of silence... horrible insomnia, random waking up in the middle of the night, not being able to shake the constant feeling of... "there's no noise! the fans must have died!"
It was like an addiction... a hellish two weeks, but eventually the cravings went away.
Some of the better managed, usually smaller companies, have implemented a call-back function. You go to their website, enter in your phone number, and they'll call you when they're available.
I found this last night on the speakeasy.net website while I was shopping for a new ISP, but I've also seen this while i was shopping for VOIP, too.
Sometime the trick is dialing 0-0. Or *-# or some weird combo. Or, you can try dialing random extensions to get in touch with a real person who has nothing to do with your problem at all, but they'll be happy to transfer you to the correct department.
However, lately it's been sometimes happening that when I try this I get immediately disconnected.
i was lucky enough to be in possession of one of these 'freak' cars for awhile. 1984 Nissan Maxima. Once my friends learned that it 'spoke', they would go to no ends to to hear that metallic (female) voice.
I loved driving down the highway only to suddenly hear, "right door is open".
It was the hight of coolness.
On the otherhand, my fuel gauge was sticky. So, even though I knew I had 2 gallons and ~40 miles left to go, I would be bombarded every 5 minutes with "fuel level is low".
THAT, the sub-par 'intelligence' that thought that i was the stupid one, was much much worse than the freaky metallic-death drone of my constant female copilot, which was actually pretty kick-ass.
And don't get me started on that piece-of-shit self-bagger at the grocery store.
Adult entertainment is a well established film genre. Why isn't it an honest job? You wake up, drive to work, clock in, bust your hump (or hump your bust) all day, then go home, and cash your cheques.
True, there is a seedier side to some of the fly by night operations, but that's also true of import electronics, major label clothing, accounting and the stock market, as we've seen in the last few years.
Corrupting minds? Nobody is forcing anybody to watch porn. Actually, it's almost always segregated into its own section / room in a store to keep people from having to peruse it unwillingly. You have to willingly pay for it on TV.
Take your religious fundamentalist dogma elsewhere.
As for the illegality of piracy, go talk to the vice-president about halliburton. He wouldn't be doing all that if it were illegal, right?
The posts so far have been right on the money: boot from usb device, while several years old, is not as common as we would like it to be.
Perhaps the best you can hope for (certainly the easiest) is to make a linux bootable diskette, load USB drivers from there, then mount the usb-drive, and load a new kernel from that. Two stage boot.
My beef with VB comes from personal experience, as well as experience I have had with others who have used it.
Case 1) I knew this chick in college; she scored a cushy summer job as a VB 'developer'. Scored a major chunk of change, while I busted my hump in a coffeeshop for 3 months. When pressed for details, it turns out that all she really did was push buttons in the visual builder gui that did everything for her. She knew enough syntax to fitb, but couldn't program her own way out of a wet paper sack.
Case 2) A friend of mine developed an inventory control program in VB. Very powerful. Earned him a promotion to manager, and major moola. The only drawback? Slower than molasses. Since he had no other language in his repertoire, and basically cribbed the whole program from pre-existing examples, it continues to take several hours to update the data.
VB has its advantages, i do not dispute that. Chief among them is that it is easy to learn, implementation time is fast, and it is tightly integrated into the windows os.
But honestly, I would not use it to munge gigs of data at a time, implement real-time applications, or control my nuclear reactor.
Then again, I just might be slightly envious that my friends were in the right place at the right time.
Telnet is an awful, awful protocl that shound never have been implemented, right from the start. Unless you're running an extremely resource-poor platform and need remote console access, there's no defendable reason to use it.
*cough*
As for NNTP... where else would we get our daily giga-dose of free pr0n from?
right on, brother. I bet you, if you go up to these coders, and ask, 'what hooks did you use?' or 'what interrupts do you bind to?' they'd have no idea what you're talking about.
Ah, the good old days... never to be recaptured *sniff*
I managed to read the first of 10(?!) pages before I decided it was just another alarmist (altho slitely journalistically poetic) piece of trash.
They're trojans, not viruses. I haven't seen a respectable virus in like 5 years. Viruses are self replicating. Trojans require lusers to activate. (britney--spears--wedding--clip.mpeg, indeed). What pisses me off is this reporter's beliefe that all this terminology is synonymous (virus, trojan, worm).
After reading the next few pages, i was surprised that the author bothered to extrapolate on the terminology "script-kiddie". (Nice job, Clive) But then he goes on about dreadlocks being the hairstyle of choice.... buh.
After that it degenerates into political commentary.
What the hell ever happened to ASM viruses? What happened to TINY?
My favourite quote: "This guy is the best at Visual Basic". That's not a compliment, dude. That's like being the best at tying your shoelace.
Ah, but you'd lose your revolutionary status. You'd still be a geek, yes, but you'd be a bourgeois geek: one of the first against the wall when the revolution comes.
The US Government supplies sanctioned art work for use in advertising and publication. This was covered the last time/. had a story about adobe blocking counterfeiting measures.
Actually, domestically, due to the sheer magnitude of the US (i'm talking geography, here), we've got tons of machines that read money. Vending machines, lottery machines, atms, car washes, cigarette machines, laudry, post office stamp machines, etc etc etc...
Literally, we have millions of machines that deal with our money. Retrofitting or upgrading all of them to detect currency correctly would cost billions of dollars.
Already, we've had enough problems with the recent slew of new bills over the past few years. Changing it AGAIN would create more problems. Inluding installing fancy new hardware that can detect the UV ink or phosphorescent threads that you might want to introduce.
This is an example of the US gov't actually trying to save you some money, rather than forcing the entire country into an upgrade cycle.
The article states that counterfeiters turned out 44$million last year. Do you honestly think anyone would spend 100 times as much money to stop that?
I applaud your noble effort. However, I must warn you. Once you take responsibility for setting up this network, everytime something goes wrong, you will be the first person the tenants come to for help. Even though it sounds like your neighbours are computer oriented, I guarantee you will be swamped with more problems than you bargained for.
Okay, Alex. I'll rephrase my answer in the form of a question.
What is, the greatest game of all time?
Also, due to the superb number of patches and guis, it is quite possible to dabble in the dungeon and never touch a keyboard (not even to enter your name!)
Or, you could just forget your ASCII roots and play nh's bastard son Diablo II instead.
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You either have very large pockets, and consequently very large pants .... or very small keyboards, and consequently very tiny hands.
I've had this experience, also. After living in close quarters for many years with a computer (or 3) whirring quietly to it self for 24 hours a day, I found that I could not live without it.
... horrible insomnia, random waking up in the middle of the night, not being able to shake the constant feeling of ... "there's no noise! the fans must have died!"
... a hellish two weeks, but eventually the cravings went away.
Once I moved into a new apartment where (ghasp) there was enough room to create a dedicated home office, and move the computers out of the bedroom, I had a ghastly time readjusting to the sound of silence
It was like an addiction
Some of the better managed, usually smaller companies, have implemented a call-back function. You go to their website, enter in your phone number, and they'll call you when they're available.
I found this last night on the speakeasy.net website while I was shopping for a new ISP, but I've also seen this while i was shopping for VOIP, too.
Sometime the trick is dialing 0-0. Or *-# or some weird combo. Or, you can try dialing random extensions to get in touch with a real person who has nothing to do with your problem at all, but they'll be happy to transfer you to the correct department.
However, lately it's been sometimes happening that when I try this I get immediately disconnected.
They're catching on.
robots.txt doesn't matter worth a damn, if you're not feeling polite.
actually ...
i was lucky enough to be in possession of one of these 'freak' cars for awhile. 1984 Nissan Maxima. Once my friends learned that it 'spoke', they would go to no ends to to hear that metallic (female) voice.
I loved driving down the highway only to suddenly hear, "right door is open".
It was the hight of coolness.
On the otherhand, my fuel gauge was sticky. So, even though I knew I had 2 gallons and ~40 miles left to go, I would be bombarded every 5 minutes with "fuel level is low".
THAT, the sub-par 'intelligence' that thought that i was the stupid one, was much much worse than the freaky metallic-death drone of my constant female copilot, which was actually pretty kick-ass.
And don't get me started on that piece-of-shit self-bagger at the grocery store.
Yeah, that was great. Especially when I saw it on fark.
In other news, "Originality and creativity surrender"
Sound familiar?
Intriguing
Au contraire, mon frere.
Adult entertainment is a well established film genre. Why isn't it an honest job? You wake up, drive to work, clock in, bust your hump (or hump your bust) all day, then go home, and cash your cheques.
True, there is a seedier side to some of the fly by night operations, but that's also true of import electronics, major label clothing, accounting and the stock market, as we've seen in the last few years.
Corrupting minds? Nobody is forcing anybody to watch porn. Actually, it's almost always segregated into its own section / room in a store to keep people from having to peruse it unwillingly. You have to willingly pay for it on TV.
Take your religious fundamentalist dogma elsewhere.
As for the illegality of piracy, go talk to the vice-president about halliburton. He wouldn't be doing all that if it were illegal, right?
The posts so far have been right on the money: boot from usb device, while several years old, is not as common as we would like it to be.
Perhaps the best you can hope for (certainly the easiest) is to make a linux bootable diskette, load USB drivers from there, then mount the usb-drive, and load a new kernel from that. Two stage boot.
Very true, and well stated.
My beef with VB comes from personal experience, as well as experience I have had with others who have used it.
Case 1) I knew this chick in college; she scored a cushy summer job as a VB 'developer'. Scored a major chunk of change, while I busted my hump in a coffeeshop for 3 months. When pressed for details, it turns out that all she really did was push buttons in the visual builder gui that did everything for her. She knew enough syntax to fitb, but couldn't program her own way out of a wet paper sack.
Case 2) A friend of mine developed an inventory control program in VB. Very powerful. Earned him a promotion to manager, and major moola. The only drawback? Slower than molasses. Since he had no other language in his repertoire, and basically cribbed the whole program from pre-existing examples, it continues to take several hours to update the data.
VB has its advantages, i do not dispute that. Chief among them is that it is easy to learn, implementation time is fast, and it is tightly integrated into the windows os.
But honestly, I would not use it to munge gigs of data at a time, implement real-time applications, or control my nuclear reactor.
Then again, I just might be slightly envious that my friends were in the right place at the right time.
Telnet is an awful, awful protocl that shound never have been implemented, right from the start. Unless you're running an extremely resource-poor platform and need remote console access, there's no defendable reason to use it.
... where else would we get our daily giga-dose of free pr0n from?
*cough*
As for NNTP
right on, brother. I bet you, if you go up to these coders, and ask, 'what hooks did you use?' or 'what interrupts do you bind to?' they'd have no idea what you're talking about.
... never to be recaptured *sniff*
Ah, the good old days
I managed to read the first of 10(?!) pages before I decided it was just another alarmist (altho slitely journalistically poetic) piece of trash.
.... buh.
They're trojans, not viruses. I haven't seen a respectable virus in like 5 years. Viruses are self replicating. Trojans require lusers to activate. (britney--spears--wedding--clip.mpeg, indeed). What pisses me off is this reporter's beliefe that all this terminology is synonymous (virus, trojan, worm).
After reading the next few pages, i was surprised that the author bothered to extrapolate on the terminology "script-kiddie". (Nice job, Clive) But then he goes on about dreadlocks being the hairstyle of choice
After that it degenerates into political commentary.
What the hell ever happened to ASM viruses? What happened to TINY?
My favourite quote: "This guy is the best at Visual Basic". That's not a compliment, dude. That's like being the best at tying your shoelace.
Ah, but you'd lose your revolutionary status. You'd still be a geek, yes, but you'd be a bourgeois geek: one of the first against the wall when the revolution comes.
On the same note, how many accidents will be caused by people who rely too heavily on the system, and neglect to actually use their own eyes to check?
Actually, the printing out of realistic fake currency is usually enough to prove that you intended to pass it off.
The US Government supplies sanctioned art work for use in advertising and publication. This was covered the last time /. had a story about adobe blocking counterfeiting measures.
Actually, domestically, due to the sheer magnitude of the US (i'm talking geography, here), we've got tons of machines that read money. Vending machines, lottery machines, atms, car washes, cigarette machines, laudry, post office stamp machines, etc etc etc ...
Literally, we have millions of machines that deal with our money. Retrofitting or upgrading all of them to detect currency correctly would cost billions of dollars.
Already, we've had enough problems with the recent slew of new bills over the past few years. Changing it AGAIN would create more problems. Inluding installing fancy new hardware that can detect the UV ink or phosphorescent threads that you might want to introduce.
This is an example of the US gov't actually trying to save you some money, rather than forcing the entire country into an upgrade cycle.
The article states that counterfeiters turned out 44$million last year. Do you honestly think anyone would spend 100 times as much money to stop that?
I applaud your noble effort. However, I must warn you. Once you take responsibility for setting up this network, everytime something goes wrong, you will be the first person the tenants come to for help. Even though it sounds like your neighbours are computer oriented, I guarantee you will be swamped with more problems than you bargained for.
Good luck.
CLI is the most powerful user interface the vast majority of users don't know how to use, or even know exists.
Actually, I'm suprised all this "gooey" stuff has lasted as long as it has. I thought it would just be a fad, and wear itself out after a few years.
Okay, Alex. I'll rephrase my answer in the form of a question.
What is, the greatest game of all time?
Also, due to the superb number of patches and guis, it is quite possible to dabble in the dungeon and never touch a keyboard (not even to enter your name!)
Or, you could just forget your ASCII roots and play nh's bastard son Diablo II instead.
NETHACK
You mean a god forsaken village like New York City?
Or how about Philadelphia?
Or how about a crowded restaurant at lunch time full of business execs?
I second the grandparent's post. In general, personalized ring tones are for schmucks.
Actually, my car has infinite hitpoints and maximum charisma.