Barking up the wrong tree, man. If I had my way, every single elected official in the federal and state governments in the US would be barred from ever holding public office again after their terms are finished. But I don't have that power. I hate Dems and Repubs just as equally. I was just trying to point out the inconsistency of the parent's post, which someone else pointed out, too.
Of course every VCR ever sold can record. Otherwise it'd be false advertising. You may not be old enough to remember seeing a VCP on the shelves, as it was cheaper to market for the low end consumer. I saw them in the early 90s as a kid browsing in KMart with not so much cash in hand, skipped it because tape is lame. That was well before Walmart invaded the area and spewed even cheaper garbage onto the market.
On second thought, by your UID, you probably are old enough to have been walking the electronics aisles back then.
You can buy those same USB sticks in ATSC form. I'm using a ElGato EyeTV Hybrid in ATSC on my Mac Pro (and under Windows on my laptop using the Hauppauge drivers; haven't tried it with FreeBSD on the laptop yet.)
The only place I get them is when picking up clothes from the dry-cleaner. Plastic ones are much preferred for the job of hanging clothing, though. I generally try to recycle the metal ones.
You do realize that with a $1.4B income at 15% tax, $210 million went to the government. In one year. I highly doubt anyone bitching about having to pay for their future use of SS/Medicaid at your stated 40% tax bracket will ever come close to paying a thousandth of that, over their entire lifetime. If you want to talk about fairness, there should be a limit on the taxes an individual has to pay over their lifetime.
Any billionaire would be out of their mind to even waste their time with SS/Medicaid; therefore, why should they bother to pay in? SS/Medicaid is an insurance policy for those too incompetent, or ignorant, to do better for themselves.
Your argument reminds me of an "In Soviet Russia..." joke. Sadly, you weren't joking.
I've got a HP zv5200 with a WUXGA (1920x1200) 15.4". Sadly, I can't config a new HP laptop with an equivalent LCD. They won't get my business again until I can get an LCD with equivalent or better specs.
Hurricane Electric (was on/. a year or so ago). I used it for awhile, but I let the tunnel expire becuase I really wasn't using it. All of my NAT'd Windows machines were 98se, no IPv6 there. Now that they're all XP and I've enabled IPv6 on them, I just may get a new/64 from HE.
Where did you learn that you can't turn off VM in Windows? I haven't used VM in Windows past the first reboot after an install since 98SE, when I finally had enough RAM in the desktop to drop swap. Both my desktop (p2-400 with 640 MB RAM) and my laptop (athlon64 3700 with 2 GB of RAM) are running swap free under XP SP2. The 12 FreeBSD machines I have around the house run swap free also. VM is absolutely unnecessary if my one rule of system building is followed: When building a machine, install the maximum amount of RAM the board will accept, any less is unacceptable.
Please go click a few dialog boxes before spreading FUD.
HP is just as bad. I refuse to ever power on a new machine without the max amount of RAM the board will take. When I bought my new laptop, HP wanted $1600 for 2 GB of RAM. Crucial wanted $998 for their awesome RAM. HP shipped me the laptop with a 256 MB stick I replaced with the Crucial before powering it on. I saved a great deal of money and have better RAM in my machine.
Now, I just need to take the time to ebay that 256 MB stick.
3.x to 4.x wasn't too bad. mrnutty (my web box) has been running the same initial install since 3.4 and tracking stable with rebuilds for every SA and point release. (IIRC. 4.0 came out what, 4 years ago? I'm too lazy to check my changelog.)
It saddens me that I'm going to have to do a fresh install for 5.x due to the need to increase the size of / (originally 30 MB on a 4 gig disk). I've tried a 5.3-RELEASE install with the same slice sizes, it was not happy. It does give me a reason to upgrade the drives, though.
That's why you run separate subnets for crap machines that you don't trust on your network. Never, ever, should you let untrusted machines on the same subnet as your servers and trusted workstations.
I've run 30 tabs for 30 different PeopleSoft instances from 0.8 to 1.0 on Windows without a single crash in the last 4 months. I haven't been able to go a day without IE having to be restarted due to cache problems with 2 or 3 windows open. I can't think of a much higher load than a bunch of PeopleSoft instances to test a browser's stability, but FF surely passes the test.
Anyone else use Firefox for PeopleSoft? Firefox handles PS really well.
We wouldn't have to carry them to defend ourselves from the government if the government didn't have any. We could then just carry to plink and hunt. Leave us the fuck alone.
Glenn Curtiss really doesn't get the credit he deserves for his contributions to flight. It's sad that most school kids know all about Orville and Wilbur (at least the things that make them look good), but none know about Curtiss. Of course, I grew up where he did all of his work, so I could be biased, but not knowing that part of history is disturbing.
If you get a chance to go on a Finger Lakes wine tour, or any other reason to visit the area, definitely stop by the Curtiss Museum in Hammondsport. They've got great stuff there.
72 column is required in most COBOL environments I've worked in. *shudders*
Actually, I should put COBOl experience on my resume, I could probably score a really badass job with that. All of the old COBOL hackers are dying. Someone has to port that legacy code eventually.
Sadly, unless you're already in the area for a job, many companies won't even consider you. My monster resume/cover letter clearly states that I'm willing to relocate anywhere within the US, on my own dime and in 3 days or less (nothing better than being single and able to do whatever you want without having to worry about families / SOs).
I'd love to move to N. Carolina to hook up with some nice jobs there, but I'm never considered because I'm in NY. I don't have the funds to move without knowing I'll have a paycheck in a week, or I'd have moved already.
Oh well, a job found me through Monster.com so I get to do something a lot more fun in 2 weeks.
If anyone in Rochester, NY wants to fix digital cameras or thermal printers, I have some really good pull to fill my current position...
I wouldn't use it in production just yet, but give it a few months. I think I read somewhere about PPC becoming a tier 1 arch at a later date (5.4-RELEASE?), which would be great. FreeBSD on a 2.5 GHz G5 when they get here... That would be awesome.
I haven't seen this, and I have a win98SE/FreeBSD4/FreeBSD5 mixed environmet all writing to each other with zero data corruption. If the bug has been around for 2 years, it's probably a configuration problem local to the user.
Figures, I missed the earthlink one also. Damn IE at work... That would have never happened at home on Firefox. It's a good thing I can't read email from work. I doubt that email would have gone through my/dev/null-on-5-points spamassassin setup, and I don't use earthlink, so I'd never have fallen for it.
Maybe I should actually do some work instead of taking phishing quizzes. Heh, yeah right.
It was a huge problem back in the day when Hotmail didn't have a select all function. The Unabomber was my friend when people needed to be taught a lesson: deleting 10,000 emails one at a time sucks.:)
Stock semi-customizable portals blow. Write your own, carry it on your usb drive or fetch it from your own webserver (geocities, whatever) and be much happier.
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Barking up the wrong tree, man. If I had my way, every single elected official in the federal and state governments in the US would be barred from ever holding public office again after their terms are finished. But I don't have that power. I hate Dems and Repubs just as equally. I was just trying to point out the inconsistency of the parent's post, which someone else pointed out, too.
Oops I forgot he and his boss are from the party of the rich and selfish.
You do know that Elliot Spitzer (Governor, prior AG) and Andrew Cuomo are Democrats, right?
Also, every VCR ever sold can record.
Of course every VCR ever sold can record. Otherwise it'd be false advertising. You may not be old enough to remember seeing a VCP on the shelves, as it was cheaper to market for the low end consumer. I saw them in the early 90s as a kid browsing in KMart with not so much cash in hand, skipped it because tape is lame. That was well before Walmart invaded the area and spewed even cheaper garbage onto the market.
On second thought, by your UID, you probably are old enough to have been walking the electronics aisles back then.
Here's one of the top google hits for a relatively new model.
You can buy those same USB sticks in ATSC form. I'm using a ElGato EyeTV Hybrid in ATSC on my Mac Pro (and under Windows on my laptop using the Hauppauge drivers; haven't tried it with FreeBSD on the laptop yet.)
The only place I get them is when picking up clothes from the dry-cleaner. Plastic ones are much preferred for the job of hanging clothing, though. I generally try to recycle the metal ones.
You do realize that with a $1.4B income at 15% tax, $210 million went to the government. In one year. I highly doubt anyone bitching about having to pay for their future use of SS/Medicaid at your stated 40% tax bracket will ever come close to paying a thousandth of that, over their entire lifetime. If you want to talk about fairness, there should be a limit on the taxes an individual has to pay over their lifetime.
Any billionaire would be out of their mind to even waste their time with SS/Medicaid; therefore, why should they bother to pay in? SS/Medicaid is an insurance policy for those too incompetent, or ignorant, to do better for themselves.
Your argument reminds me of an "In Soviet Russia..." joke. Sadly, you weren't joking.
I've got a HP zv5200 with a WUXGA (1920x1200) 15.4". Sadly, I can't config a new HP laptop with an equivalent LCD. They won't get my business again until I can get an LCD with equivalent or better specs.
Hurricane Electric (was on /. a year or so ago). I used it for awhile, but I let the tunnel expire becuase I really wasn't using it. All of my NAT'd Windows machines were 98se, no IPv6 there. Now that they're all XP and I've enabled IPv6 on them, I just may get a new /64 from HE.
linky link link.
Where did you learn that you can't turn off VM in Windows? I haven't used VM in Windows past the first reboot after an install since 98SE, when I finally had enough RAM in the desktop to drop swap. Both my desktop (p2-400 with 640 MB RAM) and my laptop (athlon64 3700 with 2 GB of RAM) are running swap free under XP SP2. The 12 FreeBSD machines I have around the house run swap free also. VM is absolutely unnecessary if my one rule of system building is followed: When building a machine, install the maximum amount of RAM the board will accept, any less is unacceptable.
Please go click a few dialog boxes before spreading FUD.
HP is just as bad. I refuse to ever power on a new machine without the max amount of RAM the board will take. When I bought my new laptop, HP wanted $1600 for 2 GB of RAM. Crucial wanted $998 for their awesome RAM. HP shipped me the laptop with a 256 MB stick I replaced with the Crucial before powering it on. I saved a great deal of money and have better RAM in my machine.
Now, I just need to take the time to ebay that 256 MB stick.
3.x to 4.x wasn't too bad. mrnutty (my web box) has been running the same initial install since 3.4 and tracking stable with rebuilds for every SA and point release. (IIRC. 4.0 came out what, 4 years ago? I'm too lazy to check my changelog.)
It saddens me that I'm going to have to do a fresh install for 5.x due to the need to increase the size of / (originally 30 MB on a 4 gig disk). I've tried a 5.3-RELEASE install with the same slice sizes, it was not happy. It does give me a reason to upgrade the drives, though.
That's why you run separate subnets for crap machines that you don't trust on your network. Never, ever, should you let untrusted machines on the same subnet as your servers and trusted workstations.
I've run 30 tabs for 30 different PeopleSoft instances from 0.8 to 1.0 on Windows without a single crash in the last 4 months. I haven't been able to go a day without IE having to be restarted due to cache problems with 2 or 3 windows open. I can't think of a much higher load than a bunch of PeopleSoft instances to test a browser's stability, but FF surely passes the test.
Anyone else use Firefox for PeopleSoft? Firefox handles PS really well.
We wouldn't have to carry them to defend ourselves from the government if the government didn't have any. We could then just carry to plink and hunt. Leave us the fuck alone.
Glenn Curtiss really doesn't get the credit he deserves for his contributions to flight. It's sad that most school kids know all about Orville and Wilbur (at least the things that make them look good), but none know about Curtiss. Of course, I grew up where he did all of his work, so I could be biased, but not knowing that part of history is disturbing.
If you get a chance to go on a Finger Lakes wine tour, or any other reason to visit the area, definitely stop by the Curtiss Museum in Hammondsport. They've got great stuff there.
72 column is required in most COBOL environments I've worked in. *shudders*
Actually, I should put COBOl experience on my resume, I could probably score a really badass job with that. All of the old COBOL hackers are dying. Someone has to port that legacy code eventually.
Sadly, unless you're already in the area for a job, many companies won't even consider you. My monster resume/cover letter clearly states that I'm willing to relocate anywhere within the US, on my own dime and in 3 days or less (nothing better than being single and able to do whatever you want without having to worry about families / SOs).
I'd love to move to N. Carolina to hook up with some nice jobs there, but I'm never considered because I'm in NY. I don't have the funds to move without knowing I'll have a paycheck in a week, or I'd have moved already.
Oh well, a job found me through Monster.com so I get to do something a lot more fun in 2 weeks.
If anyone in Rochester, NY wants to fix digital cameras or thermal printers, I have some really good pull to fill my current position...
I wouldn't use it in production just yet, but give it a few months. I think I read somewhere about PPC becoming a tier 1 arch at a later date (5.4-RELEASE?), which would be great. FreeBSD on a 2.5 GHz G5 when they get here... That would be awesome.
I haven't seen this, and I have a win98SE/FreeBSD4/FreeBSD5 mixed environmet all writing to each other with zero data corruption. If the bug has been around for 2 years, it's probably a configuration problem local to the user.
According to the status update released a couple days ago, makeworld now completes natively, IIRC. Go search google. :)
Figures, I missed the earthlink one also. Damn IE at work... That would have never happened at home on Firefox. It's a good thing I can't read email from work. I doubt that email would have gone through my /dev/null-on-5-points spamassassin setup, and I don't use earthlink, so I'd never have fallen for it.
Maybe I should actually do some work instead of taking phishing quizzes. Heh, yeah right.
Because stupid people took them to court to get the webcams removed...
Where's the +5, NJ Trilogy Quote mod when I need it?
It was a huge problem back in the day when Hotmail didn't have a select all function. The Unabomber was my friend when people needed to be taught a lesson: deleting 10,000 emails one at a time sucks. :)
(Stupid high school hijinks!)
Stock semi-customizable portals blow. Write your own, carry it on your usb drive or fetch it from your own webserver (geocities, whatever) and be much happier.