consider it as an adaption to a society where you are taken care of and fed no matter how fit you are. sure, an autistic caveman wouldn't last a season, let alone long enough to breed. but today only the worst of birth defects prevent you from being raised and cared for all your life; an ideal environment to keep you alive until you can pass along your genetic material.
I recommend that you trust the hardware monitor in the BIOS, if you have reason not to trust it,
get a handheld thermometer to place against the heat sink, DON'T use your finger.
just don't use a mercury thermometer to do this. i've got a found memory of exploding one of those glass thermometers using a match or lighter. which is undesirable, because mercury is bad for you. now i have no idea if the amount in a glass thermometer is enough to do you harm if a little splashes on you, but the whole flying glass particles thing isn't too good for you either.
also in a previous life i might have recommended wetting a finger to check heatsink (like you might do to check the heat of a frying pan or iron), but someone mentioned a heatsink can acquire and electrical charge, so i think i'll research that a little before using the old wet finger check again.
..and especially this time of the [fiscal] year, people are sometimes looking to spend more money so they use up their whole budget (otherwise they get less money next year).
a broadband connection isn't any better when your neighboor's mp3/porn ftp site is in full swing, or you are in an environment like battle.net where you can run lag-free from 5-6am on every other sunday.
actually i've done that, and it's extremely convenient to make something like that which you can just drag and drop onto a desktop (assuming you're in a an office where ms office is common).
but, even more than "vendor lock-in", it totally pigeonholes you as a developer to write stuff like that:(
anyway back on topic: i was just trying to get some clarification from the poster, and possibly to suggest something he didn't know about perl.
i'd bet money you can use perl to interface with an access database, and probably in a general enough way that it could be eventually switched to something better (mysql, whatever) with little change.
or do you mean they actually added code to the access application instead of just wizard-generated forms, and you didn't/couldn't take the time to convert it all?
seriously, don't ask slashdot goons for tax advice. it's worth paying the 100 bucks or whatever to a tax firm to do your return for you, and tell you what information you need to keep track of for the next year.
i know that, and you know that, but when the government has that 1 billion dollar producing a month mammoth charging at them yelling something else, they tend to listen. much to our disadvantage.
and i'm not necessarily knocking microsoft for doing it either, right now i'm more irritated at the government being so open to influence by coporatations.
we can do 400 fps and a kajillion polynomial vectors per gigaflop or whatever, but there's not a fricking game that makes any real use out of any of it.
in the article, the fear was that american businesses would suffer because, if the nsa produced open-source software, it would be available on a international level, and would offer more competition to american businesses.
"Many complaints criticized the agency for providing the fruits of research to everyone, not just U.S. companies, and thus hurting American business."
which is all bullshit: open source stuff would promote more and better research; you have to learn how to do it better/faster/whatever when everyone just got access to the latest greatest way of doing it (whatever "it" happens to be).
anyway the good news is,
"Despite the intense battle surrounding the open source, the NSA will still fund research on secure operating systems based on Linux as well as work with U.S. companies to create better security in their own operating systems."
i saw this (or something extremely similar) at a BJ's (warehouse membership store) here in VA, and i totally want one. especially nice for apartments and such where space is a premium.
the ones i saw weren't leather and were 40 bucks (the one i linked to above says 75$:/)
Slashdot Mirror
rm -i bookmarks.html
actually that's what public libraries are for, see The Homless Guy blog.
better not, if they count the moderations as legit, you'll lose karma. and a kitten dies for every negative karma hit you take.
fahrenheit 451, was the interactive show the wife was using specified to be on TV screens or something more similar to a picture window?
consider it as an adaption to a society where you are taken care of and fed no matter how fit you are. sure, an autistic caveman wouldn't last a season, let alone long enough to breed. but today only the worst of birth defects prevent you from being raised and cared for all your life; an ideal environment to keep you alive until you can pass along your genetic material.
Poster E: All your posts are redundant, shutup!
by the way, about your redundant post...
just don't use a mercury thermometer to do this. i've got a found memory of exploding one of those glass thermometers using a match or lighter. which is undesirable, because mercury is bad for you. now i have no idea if the amount in a glass thermometer is enough to do you harm if a little splashes on you, but the whole flying glass particles thing isn't too good for you either.
also in a previous life i might have recommended wetting a finger to check heatsink (like you might do to check the heat of a frying pan or iron), but someone mentioned a heatsink can acquire and electrical charge, so i think i'll research that a little before using the old wet finger check again.
Seen here, or just try it yourself
it says clearly in the article it would bond to the aids virus (yes, they should say human immunodeficiency virus), stopping the spread of the virus.
"Once such compounds bind with an AIDs virus, the virus is no longer capable of entering a cell to damage it."
heh, i am in VA, but our contracts are federal :) and we're lucky enough to be in enough demand that we haven't really been hit by cutbacks.
..and especially this time of the [fiscal] year, people are sometimes looking to spend more money so they use up their whole budget (otherwise they get less money next year).
a broadband connection isn't any better when your neighboor's mp3/porn ftp site is in full swing, or you are in an environment like battle.net where you can run lag-free from 5-6am on every other sunday.
actually i've done that, and it's extremely convenient to make something like that which you can just drag and drop onto a desktop (assuming you're in a an office where ms office is common).
:(
but, even more than "vendor lock-in", it totally pigeonholes you as a developer to write stuff like that
anyway back on topic: i was just trying to get some clarification from the poster, and possibly to suggest something he didn't know about perl.
i'd bet money you can use perl to interface with an access database, and probably in a general enough way that it could be eventually switched to something better (mysql, whatever) with little change.
or do you mean they actually added code to the access application instead of just wizard-generated forms, and you didn't/couldn't take the time to convert it all?
seriously, don't ask slashdot goons for tax advice. it's worth paying the 100 bucks or whatever to a tax firm to do your return for you, and tell you what information you need to keep track of for the next year.
metaphysics of
quality may not be true
but it sure is neat
an outlook plugin
(or non-microsoft option).
calm as still waters.
a haiku filter,
no collateral damage.
ah, spam free morning.
i know that, and you know that, but when the government has that 1 billion dollar producing a month mammoth charging at them yelling something else, they tend to listen. much to our disadvantage.
and i'm not necessarily knocking microsoft for doing it either, right now i'm more irritated at the government being so open to influence by coporatations.
no kidding.
we can do 400 fps and a kajillion polynomial vectors per gigaflop or whatever, but there's not a fricking game that makes any real use out of any of it.
in the article, the fear was that american businesses would suffer because, if the nsa produced open-source software, it would be available on a international level, and would offer more competition to american businesses.
"Many complaints criticized the agency for providing the fruits of research to everyone, not just U.S. companies, and thus hurting American business."
which is all bullshit: open source stuff would promote more and better research; you have to learn how to do it better/faster/whatever when everyone just got access to the latest greatest way of doing it (whatever "it" happens to be).
anyway the good news is,
"Despite the intense battle surrounding the open source, the NSA will still fund research on secure operating systems based on Linux as well as work with U.S. companies to create better security in their own operating systems."
remember, google.com is your best friend.
scramjet
you can block windows explorer (explorer.exe) from accessing the network with zone alarm (or a similar product).
(and this doesn't interfere with internet explorer accessing the network, FYI)
how have they held up, and for how long. the only thing keeping me from buying them is the fear that they will fall apart in a year or so.
:/
well, that and the butt-ugly color selection available locally
i saw this (or something extremely similar) at a BJ's (warehouse membership store) here in VA, and i totally want one. especially nice for apartments and such where space is a premium.
:/)
the ones i saw weren't leather and were 40 bucks (the one i linked to above says 75$