Other than calling the distro "Kubuntu" I have to second everything the parent said. I began downloading distros onto a sandbox machine with the goal of being able to do everything I could do on my 2K machine with as little fuss as I can do it on 2K.
So far, Ubuntu hasn't failed me. Put another way, it's the first distro I'd recommend to my mother-in-law (and I like my M-I-L.)
Sorry, I figured that was pretty much assumed. I'm surprised another poster got a response. And from Barbara Boxer, no less; the enemy of my enemy seems in this case to be my friend. LOL
Of course, it's only been a day, and i'm sure that Santorum's email account hasn't recovered from the slashdotting it's gotten; but I haven't heard a peep from him.
ObDisclaimer: Yes, I am a resident of the great Commonwealth of PA.
I'm opposed to your introduction of S.786, the "National Weather Service Duties Act of 2005." Why don't you just label it the "AccuWeather Protection Act of 2005" and get it over with?
The National Weather Service provides accurate, up to date gathering of data and presents forecasts of weather at taxpayers' expense. To prohibit them from disseminating this through public access, and constrain them to "data portals designed for volume access by commercial providers" (Section 2(c)(2)) does a grave disservice to the taxpayers of Pennsylvania and the country in general. What you have done is nothing less than ensure that commercial weather reporting agencies have a taxpayer-funded data source that taxpayers are prohibited from enjoying.
Rest assured I will be monitoring the progress of this bill through the Senate and the House.
At least you are trying to put an end to your fantasy...
I have an end to my fantasy, and it's a Linux distro that lives on my laptop. My personal laptop. My home is filled with Mac and Linux.
My work environment, unfortunately, demands my use of Windows 2000. Doesn't mean I like it, 'cos I don't. However, I have to put up with crap in my work persona that I would not tolerate for a minute outside of the office, because they sign a paycheck that I live on. So at work, I smile and let virii have their way with me. But at home, I keep the dragons at bay.
Just don't think that people do it because they wanna do it; they do it because it's the only choice they think they have. Not everyone's as smart as you.
Mod this flamebait if you must, but the fact is that people don't voluntarily choose to run Windows 2000 or XP or anything else.
They choose the path of least resistance.
In many cases, too, probably a vast majority, the decision has been made for them by an uber-authority (an IT department or senior management team.)
Most people just want to get their work done and don't want know the gory details. And I think we both know that if there were different companies marketing different computers, each preinstalled with different OSes; say, Linux or Mac or BeOS or Plan 9 for Christ's sake -- and readily available versions of the various apps that people need -- in short, if there was REAL competition in operating systems and software rather than the lock that Microsoft has on the desktop market, that the spate of instabilities would cause people to flock from Windows in droves.
That's it, fantasy over. Please deposit 50 cents for a new fantasy.
in addition to the parent poster, a quick Google using "table-mate" turns up many additional hits.
Walgreens.com carries them too, which leads one to believe that if you are local to a Walgreens, you may not have to wait to see what Brown can do for you.
wasn't there some awful fold up "tv" tray that was advertised on TV that might work for something like this?
Yep. I got one. It's not a bad solution at all. I have a sanctum sanctorum where I spend most of my computing time, but every so often the wife will want me upstairs for something, so i'll plug in the wireless card and go a-roaming. The table is a useful tool.
I like that rolling keyboard stand -- seen them in the Frontgate catalog too for about a hundred bucks, but that "awful fold up TV tray" is like less than half the price. So it doesn't have wheels. Big deal.
That's a ten dollar word for "oil from pretty much any biological waste" including turkey offal and medical waste (what they're using now.)
Doesn't do anything for greenhouse gasses or global warming, mind you, but as a solution to Foreign Oil Dependency, it sounds like an interesting concept.
And you can make the case that perhaps the car companies need to be getting behind this technology in order to make sure that there's a device that will consume all this lovely thermally depolymerized chicken crap.:)
My kingdom for mod points. Very interesting article.
I have managed to get 2 days per week working from home; with a sho' 'nuff office. Desk phone? Heh, it's 60 miles from me and I don't care how often it rings.
A riposte to the constant distractions is to 'Be somewhere else.' Not always possible, but you can try...
It sucks to have everyone spoiling the surprise for others though.
Well, if everyone R'ed TFA (or TFWS as the case may be) before they read the/. comments, they wouldn't see these as spoilers. "-1 Redundant," maybe, but not spoilers.
Ah, IEFBR14. The original proof that even IBM couldn't write a one line program without having a bug in it.
Its only purpose is to return control to register 14 (BR 14), which contains the instruction to pass control back to the mainframe; so IEFBR14 did, in effect, nothing. (Also how it got it's name, for obvious reasons.) However, it sometimes passed back a nonzero return code so they had to add another two bytes to the program; an SR 15,15 to zero out the condition code register.
The SAS-L archives has one programmer's recollection. I heard the story years ago but never found the cross reference; it was always passed down from sysprog to sysprog as part of our oral tradition.:)
Oh boy, I'm blowing mod points and probably going OT so I can answer this one.
Obesity is not caused by lack of exercise, it's caused by a poorly balanced diet.
Are you really saying that physical activity has nothing to do with obesity?
That if you are pounding down 3500 calories a day that it doesn't matter if you're a couch potato or competing in some extreme physical sport (a triathalon or something like that?)
Come on. Get real. The reason these kids are obese is not only the "Supersizing" at Mickey D's but the fact that they go home, zonk out on the couch and either watch videos, MTV or play those shoot-em-up games on their video game consoles.
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Other than calling the distro "Kubuntu" I have to second everything the parent said. I began downloading distros onto a sandbox machine with the goal of being able to do everything I could do on my 2K machine with as little fuss as I can do it on 2K.
So far, Ubuntu hasn't failed me. Put another way, it's the first distro I'd recommend to my mother-in-law (and I like my M-I-L.)
I work with a Zdziarski. He pronounces his name "Jar-skee."
invite sent
(I'm just wondering whether this gets modded 'Funny', 'Insightful', or 'Flamebait'...)
:-)
;-{)
Probably all three of them
Well, after three hours, it's "None of them."
Sorry, I figured that was pretty much assumed. I'm surprised another poster got a response. And from Barbara Boxer, no less; the enemy of my enemy seems in this case to be my friend. LOL
Of course, it's only been a day, and i'm sure that Santorum's email account hasn't recovered from the slashdotting it's gotten; but I haven't heard a peep from him.
ObDisclaimer: Yes, I am a resident of the great Commonwealth of PA.
Here's what I told him. Here's where I told it to him.
I'm opposed to your introduction of S.786, the "National Weather Service Duties Act of 2005." Why don't you just label it the "AccuWeather Protection Act of 2005" and get it over with?
The National Weather Service provides accurate, up to date gathering of data and presents forecasts of weather at taxpayers' expense. To prohibit them from disseminating this through public access, and constrain them to "data portals designed for volume access by commercial providers" (Section 2(c)(2)) does a grave disservice to the taxpayers of Pennsylvania and the country in general. What you have done is nothing less than ensure that commercial weather reporting agencies have a taxpayer-funded data source that taxpayers are prohibited from enjoying.
Rest assured I will be monitoring the progress of this bill through the Senate and the House.
You finish with the conduit by putting fire stop caulk in the big hole that's left.
As the other posters have also mentioned, 'conduit' != 'plenum.'
At least you are trying to put an end to your fantasy...
I have an end to my fantasy, and it's a Linux distro that lives on my laptop. My personal laptop. My home is filled with Mac and Linux.
My work environment, unfortunately, demands my use of Windows 2000. Doesn't mean I like it, 'cos I don't. However, I have to put up with crap in my work persona that I would not tolerate for a minute outside of the office, because they sign a paycheck that I live on. So at work, I smile and let virii have their way with me. But at home, I keep the dragons at bay.
Just don't think that people do it because they wanna do it; they do it because it's the only choice they think they have. Not everyone's as smart as you.
The wiki at the Plan 9 website has activity as recently as August 14 of this year, so I'd say that it still has a pulse.
Oh, grow up.
Mod this flamebait if you must, but the fact is that people don't voluntarily choose to run Windows 2000 or XP or anything else.
They choose the path of least resistance.
In many cases, too, probably a vast majority, the decision has been made for them by an uber-authority (an IT department or senior management team.)
Most people just want to get their work done and don't want know the gory details. And I think we both know that if there were different companies marketing different computers, each preinstalled with different OSes; say, Linux or Mac or BeOS or Plan 9 for Christ's sake -- and readily available versions of the various apps that people need -- in short, if there was REAL competition in operating systems and software rather than the lock that Microsoft has on the desktop market, that the spate of instabilities would cause people to flock from Windows in droves.
That's it, fantasy over. Please deposit 50 cents for a new fantasy.
in addition to the parent poster, a quick Google using "table-mate" turns up many additional hits.
Walgreens.com carries them too, which leads one to believe that if you are local to a Walgreens, you may not have to wait to see what Brown can do for you.
wasn't there some awful fold up "tv" tray that was advertised on TV that might work for something like this?
Yep. I got one. It's not a bad solution at all. I have a sanctum sanctorum where I spend most of my computing time, but every so often the wife will want me upstairs for something, so i'll plug in the wireless card and go a-roaming. The table is a useful tool.
I like that rolling keyboard stand -- seen them in the Frontgate catalog too for about a hundred bucks, but that "awful fold up TV tray" is like less than half the price. So it doesn't have wheels. Big deal.
You forgot slashdot. :)
(Yeah, yeah, I know; Computers and Internet.)
You don't necessarily have to get oil from dead dinosaurs.
:)
There are efforts going on to advance the technology of Thermal Depolymerization.
That's a ten dollar word for "oil from pretty much any biological waste" including turkey offal and medical waste (what they're using now.)
Doesn't do anything for greenhouse gasses or global warming, mind you, but as a solution to Foreign Oil Dependency, it sounds like an interesting concept.
And you can make the case that perhaps the car companies need to be getting behind this technology in order to make sure that there's a device that will consume all this lovely thermally depolymerized chicken crap.
But what do I know?
the best defense being a good offense
Like going all in with a pair of deuces in a high stakes game of Texas Hold'em. LOL.
...because Wal-Mart never prices anything ending in a '9'.
I had heard that as an urban legend, but apparently it's true.
Erm, about your sig;
I do not think Dr. Spock said this. That was the baby doctor.
I believe you're thinking of Mr. Spock, the fictional First Officer of the Starship Enterprise.
Oh, and I disagree with your argument too.
My kingdom for mod points. Very interesting article.
I have managed to get 2 days per week working from home; with a sho' 'nuff office. Desk phone? Heh, it's 60 miles from me and I don't care how often it rings.
A riposte to the constant distractions is to 'Be somewhere else.' Not always possible, but you can try...
It sucks to have everyone spoiling the surprise for others though.
/. comments, they wouldn't see these as spoilers. "-1 Redundant," maybe, but not spoilers.
Well, if everyone R'ed TFA (or TFWS as the case may be) before they read the
Ah, IEFBR14. The original proof that even IBM couldn't write a one line program without having a bug in it.
:)
Its only purpose is to return control to register 14 (BR 14), which contains the instruction to pass control back to the mainframe; so IEFBR14 did, in effect, nothing. (Also how it got it's name, for obvious reasons.) However, it sometimes passed back a nonzero return code so they had to add another two bytes to the program; an SR 15,15 to zero out the condition code register.
The SAS-L archives has one programmer's recollection. I heard the story years ago but never found the cross reference; it was always passed down from sysprog to sysprog as part of our oral tradition.
how many people on Slashdot never get the joke. /me raises hand
:)
Seriously, that one just whizzed by at about 9 feet.
No, the parent is talking about the processor that handles the IPL chores in the sysplex.
Plus the silos probably all have their own dedicated systems.
The fact that they have 3270 emulation would be rather insignificant if VTAM isn't started yet, methinks.
I'll check with our systems guys, not sure what's gonna happen now.
The proper spelling is buffoon.
I wonder if there's ever been a study done on how many "spelling nazis" have typos of their own in their spelling flames of other posters.
Oh boy, I'm blowing mod points and probably going OT so I can answer this one.
Obesity is not caused by lack of exercise, it's caused by a poorly balanced diet.
Are you really saying that physical activity has nothing to do with obesity?
That if you are pounding down 3500 calories a day that it doesn't matter if you're a couch potato or competing in some extreme physical sport (a triathalon or something like that?)
Come on. Get real. The reason these kids are obese is not only the "Supersizing" at Mickey D's but the fact that they go home, zonk out on the couch and either watch videos, MTV or play those shoot-em-up games on their video game consoles.
monitoring nuclear power plants
It's not just nuclear power plants.
The space shuttle has an amazing software development group as well.
Fast Company did an article on the team a while back. It was pretty cool reading.