So... instead of a friendly hello, the mailserver should instead answer for an incoming connection request with a gruff "nuqneH!" (Klingon for "What do you want?")
and I suppose Hubble wasn't meant to be returned to Earth to begin with
Actually it was. It was deployed aboard Discovery, and they'd intended to try to bring it back down in the cargo bay of Columbia, since the other 3 remaining orbiters have now been fitted with a special airlock to allow them to mate with the ISS, and that makes not enough room left in their cargo bays to fit Hubble. Now it would require a retrofitting of one of the remaining orbiters to remove that airlock assembly. That would be very expensive and time consuming for such a special dedicated mission. There are also some arguments that the extra weight of Hubble in the cargo bay of any orbiter would make re-entry and landing too dangerous to even attempt.
I would really like to see the Hubble brought back safely down to be kept in the Smithsonion. Perhaps if enough people would voice this dream, there could be enough publicity generated around the world to raise the money necessary for the very complicated and expensive retrieval project. There's still many years to go before the Hubble has to come down, perhaps even a special shuttle could even be quickly built, that would be completely remote controlled, and need no human life support systems at all, to send up and retrieve hubble so that no astronauts' lives would be at risk in case the re-entry and landing fail.
...as slacking off and not really working by the overwhelming vast majority of PHB's who run corporate USA. In other words, if the workers are not at the office, then they're not working, period.
Except for the PHBs themselves of course, if you're one of them, then telecommuting is deemed both valid and cool, and shows to your golf-playing peers that you are "progressive".
My humble little 40-year-old single-engine Piper airplane is fly-by-wire. The control yoke is connected to the elevator and ailerons by steel wires almost a quarter-inch diameter, and a thick solid core steel wire about a tenth of an inch diameter connects the throttle handle to the engine carburetor.
I have 100% positive control over what those wires do and prefer to keep it that way!
The two IOS versions containing this fix for my main Internet border router have been out since March 2003. The newest one was early June, so I downloaded that and installed it. Took less than 30 minutes for the entire procedure from the time I began searching their website for the version I wanted to use, until I reloaded the router with the new one installed. It sure is nice to have Cisco Smartnet maintenence and an employer who understands how important it is to keep up maintenance agreements on mission critical systems.
I doubt that we will ever see vendor liability of harmful systems come thru legislation, but instead I believe that operator liability will come instead. If you run an un-networthy system on the public internet, and if it gets hijacked or infected and thus used to propagate harm to other parties' systems, then you'll be the one who'll get blamed and not the vendor who supplied it. Just a hunch....
Linux is not necessarily "cheap". It requires a substantial investment of time and effort in learning how to install, configure and use it well. My time is worth a lot of money. And I have very much gotten great value for my investment of time in learning Linux. In the end, Linux is certainly a bargain, but it ain't "cheap".
Seriously, all you geeks out there need to try having a few flying lessons. We need more private pilots in this country. If you've got the "right stuff" you owe it to yourself to learn how to fly. And no, you don't have to be rich either. I only make about $35k per year and I could even afford to buy my own single engine airplane. A modest one only costs as much as a new Chevy pickup truck and is a hell of a lot more fun.
Go to HP's website and get yourself a new Proliant DL320 G2 1U rack server. All you really need for your application is single CPU anyway and this box has built-in IDE ATA/100 RAID1.
Equipped with a 2.66GHz P4, 512MB DDR memory, dual 10/100 nics and a pair of 80GB ATA/100 drives as RAID1 on the internal IDE raid controller will give you all the fault tolerance and performance you need. RedHat 9.0 installs and runs perfectly on this box. I just built one myself last week as a little samba server for a public housing department. It retails for $2079, but I got mine for just under $1800 off the state and local govt discount contract. Use that other $2200 to buy a year's worth of RoadRunner business-class (static ip addr) cablemodem service. You don't even need to buy a router or firewall, since the dual nics in this box plus being Linux, you'll already have that.
Be sure to download and install the "hpasm" rpm for RedHat Linux on this box off HP's support website so it'll spin the DL320 G2's fans down to low speed, otherwise they'll run full blast by default and sounds like jet turbines.
As far as I'm concerned, the industry is already shipping pre-destructed material. Shoddy plotlines. Crappy acting, B-stories with A-budgets. "Adaptations" of classics. Bah.
Good.
Maybe more and more people will slowly wake up and realize that the whole "entertainment industry" is rotting and dying, and instead of numbing their minds sitting in front of the boob tube, wasting their lives away filling their brains with knowledge-pollution, they need to instead spend their idle time pursuing worthwhile hobbies, projects, sports, adventures, etc and actually doing something bigger, better and more important with their lives...
Fat chance that is likely to happen any time soon though:-(
The comments are in fact identical in places. Even some of the jokes are the same on both sides.
Should it not be possible to locate the individual who wrote these jokes and comments, and subpoena them to testify? This must surely be a way to put to rest the true origin of such code.
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...all writing utensils and paper too.
... that the Russians would escape while we weren't watching them.
... has already been referring to it as the Windows worm (or virus).
That's right. The cuplrit didn't hack or crack anything. He simply embezzled the data.
So... instead of a friendly hello, the mailserver should instead answer for an incoming connection request with a gruff "nuqneH!" (Klingon for "What do you want?")
and I suppose Hubble wasn't meant to be returned to Earth to begin with
Actually it was. It was deployed aboard Discovery, and they'd intended to try to bring it back down in the cargo bay of Columbia, since the other 3 remaining orbiters have now been fitted with a special airlock to allow them to mate with the ISS, and that makes not enough room left in their cargo bays to fit Hubble. Now it would require a retrofitting of one of the remaining orbiters to remove that airlock assembly. That would be very expensive and time consuming for such a special dedicated mission. There are also some arguments that the extra weight of Hubble in the cargo bay of any orbiter would make re-entry and landing too dangerous to even attempt.
I would really like to see the Hubble brought back safely down to be kept in the Smithsonion. Perhaps if enough people would voice this dream, there could be enough publicity generated around the world to raise the money necessary for the very complicated and expensive retrieval project. There's still many years to go before the Hubble has to come down, perhaps even a special shuttle could even be quickly built, that would be completely remote controlled, and need no human life support systems at all, to send up and retrieve hubble so that no astronauts' lives would be at risk in case the re-entry and landing fail.
...as slacking off and not really working by the overwhelming vast majority of PHB's who run corporate USA. In other words, if the workers are not at the office, then they're not working, period.
Except for the PHBs themselves of course, if you're one of them, then telecommuting is deemed both valid and cool, and shows to your golf-playing peers that you are "progressive".
...of the Terminator movie?
Mexican Gas Station Man - "He says there's a storm coming."
Sarah Conner - "I know."
My humble little 40-year-old single-engine Piper airplane is fly-by-wire. The control yoke is connected to the elevator and ailerons by steel wires almost a quarter-inch diameter, and a thick solid core steel wire about a tenth of an inch diameter connects the throttle handle to the engine carburetor.
I have 100% positive control over what those wires do and prefer to keep it that way!
I thought all our fast food workers already were robots.
Just because they used to be computer programmers at their former jobs, they only just still act robot-like.
Who's the leading distributor period?
I believe that would be www.linuxiso.org
The two IOS versions containing this fix for my main Internet border router have been out since March 2003. The newest one was early June, so I downloaded that and installed it. Took less than 30 minutes for the entire procedure from the time I began searching their website for the version I wanted to use, until I reloaded the router with the new one installed. It sure is nice to have Cisco Smartnet maintenence and an employer who understands how important it is to keep up maintenance agreements on mission critical systems.
...of course, I'm using Mozilla Firebird as my broswer however. :-)
... but Linux certainly does has a center of "lift"... it's openness.
(The center of gravity / center of lift terms come from aviation, if you didn't figure that out)
I doubt that we will ever see vendor liability of harmful systems come thru legislation, but instead I believe that operator liability will come instead. If you run an un-networthy system on the public internet, and if it gets hijacked or infected and thus used to propagate harm to other parties' systems, then you'll be the one who'll get blamed and not the vendor who supplied it. Just a hunch....
Wait! But what about Linux?
Time to end the sarcasm for the day..
Linux is not necessarily "cheap". It requires a substantial investment of time and effort in learning how to install, configure and use it well. My time is worth a lot of money. And I have very much gotten great value for my investment of time in learning Linux. In the end, Linux is certainly a bargain, but it ain't "cheap".
...if you fly your own airplane.
Seriously, all you geeks out there need to try having a few flying lessons. We need more private pilots in this country. If you've got the "right stuff" you owe it to yourself to learn how to fly. And no, you don't have to be rich either. I only make about $35k per year and I could even afford to buy my own single engine airplane. A modest one only costs as much as a new Chevy pickup truck and is a hell of a lot more fun.
Go to HP's website and get yourself a new Proliant DL320 G2 1U rack server. All you really need for your application is single CPU anyway and this box has built-in IDE ATA/100 RAID1.
Equipped with a 2.66GHz P4, 512MB DDR memory, dual 10/100 nics and a pair of 80GB ATA/100 drives as RAID1 on the internal IDE raid controller will give you all the fault tolerance and performance you need. RedHat 9.0 installs and runs perfectly on this box. I just built one myself last week as a little samba server for a public housing department. It retails for $2079, but I got mine for just under $1800 off the state and local govt discount contract. Use that other $2200 to buy a year's worth of RoadRunner business-class (static ip addr) cablemodem service. You don't even need to buy a router or firewall, since the dual nics in this box plus being Linux, you'll already have that.
Be sure to download and install the "hpasm" rpm for RedHat Linux on this box off HP's support website so it'll spin the DL320 G2's fans down to low speed, otherwise they'll run full blast by default and sounds like jet turbines.
Obviously you've never been aware that Novell has been equipped with Phasers for years.
The subject line says it all.
Moderators should've given a +5 Insightful instead.
As an amatuer musician myself, I'm now quite ashamed that I forgot to put that in the list.
I have mod points right now... too bad I can't use them here to give you a +1 Funny.
As far as I'm concerned, the industry is already shipping pre-destructed material. Shoddy plotlines. Crappy acting, B-stories with A-budgets. "Adaptations" of classics. Bah.
:-(
Good.
Maybe more and more people will slowly wake up and realize that the whole "entertainment industry" is rotting and dying, and instead of numbing their minds sitting in front of the boob tube, wasting their lives away filling their brains with knowledge-pollution, they need to instead spend their idle time pursuing worthwhile hobbies, projects, sports, adventures, etc and actually doing something bigger, better and more important with their lives...
Fat chance that is likely to happen any time soon though
The comments are in fact identical in places. Even some of the jokes are the same on both sides.
Should it not be possible to locate the individual who wrote these jokes and comments, and subpoena them to testify? This must surely be a way to put to rest the true origin of such code.
How the hell is this insightful? If anything it's only mildly funny, as a spoof of the newspaper headline from the movie "Johnny Dangerously".