Killing Dark Angel to show Firefly means one less family watching Fox in my house.
Fox canceled Dark Angel to make room for Firefly... which is so funny. Like they had no weak spots in their lineup to put it in? Let's see, they have Sunday locked up with the Simpsons+King of the Hill, then Monday... umm, Tues.. no wait.. ummm. Frelling idiots.
I wonder if the Sci Fi channel outsourced their programming services to Fox?
Forget mis-timing your message, how about hiding the spoiler in the message for those who have either time-shifted (like I have) or are in another country? It's waiting at home in my TiVo for me to watch. I haven't looked at the X Files all year, I only recorded this one to see the Lone Gunmen.
FUCK YOU VERY MUCH
That was probably the most thoughtless, inconsiderate, stupid fucking thing I've seen anyone post in quite some time.
It's a great pity that Slashdot seem to have NO CONSCIOUS EDITORS.
Well, here is an example of being saved by a firmware update.
Back around August 2001, that famous MSTD, the
CodeRed worm was swarming across the Internet. One side effect of
it's probing behavior was to trigger a bug in certain models of Cisco
DSL modems. The result was a crashed modem.
The user could power cycle the modem, but it would die again
shortly when their neighbor's infected system probed them. This was a
catastrophe for the ISP's involved.
This effected many people, more than a million I believe.
Cisco put out a corrective CD-ROM that reflashed the CPE with fixed
firmware. If this had not been possible, Cisco would probably have
ended up paying to replace all those modems. Running off some
CD-ROMs was a lot cheaper.
I remember taking a class (I think in BASIC) at a community college.
I already new BASIC, had been programming in it for several years. (I
was only taking the class for the easy credits.)
After a test was turned in, the teacher called me over. He showed
me a code fragment submitted by another student. It was
practically identical, even to the variable names. (Of
course, in this old dialect of BASIC, variables were single letters.)
How did this happen? Outside this class, the other student and I
were collaborating on an astrophysics simulator (also in BASIC) for
another class. Today, our style of coding is called Extreme Programming. In
the course of this we had tacitly developed common coding conventions
and styles.
Even so, I was surprised how similar our independent output was.
Fortunately for me, the teacher was a friend of mine and he
believed my explanation. Even so, I sensed some doubt on his part.
Were he a relative stranger, things might have gotten messy.
Huh, you're lucky if you're still getting connections. Cox@Home pressured us by blocking incoming ports 80 & 25. No notice, just whack.
My own fault, really. I tried to work with them. (we're an unfunded, non-profit medical info site.) One week after I asked them for a stable IP, they cut us off. Real nice.
I'd like to hear what the absolute best software engineers use as an alternative to UML & OOD for large projects.
I've been architecting large-oid client-server & distributed systems for quite a while. Before UML, Booch was used. No real complaints with it, either.
In my experience, UML (and OOD in general) had been a good thing. Not a distraction, no destroyed projects. Quite the opposite, in fact.
I'm an @home user. Before I learned the value of having a firewall (LRP rocks!), I was cracked once (IMAPd) and had my DNS killed (BIND buffer overflow; killed the daemon but didn't get root-kitted).
Based on my friends logs, an @home customer can expect constant port scans.
Don't get me wrong - I like the service; people just shouldn't run unsecured systems. (For that matter, nor should you leave the keys in your car.;-)
If your O/S is inherently unsecure (like Windows), I would definetly employ a firewall. I use LRP (I like the control), but I know folks having good luck with those cute LinkSys units.
Actually, I stole that. I was just discussing this with my wife and explained how these posters has lost their first amendment rights to free speech. She actually said:
Early 1999 my wife & I were planning a vacation & I wanted a digital camera. After some research, (and two-hours of owning a very bad Agfa) I decided on the Canon PowerShot A5 Zoom. My criteria (and rationale) were:
Small size This was going to be in my pocket or in a small cam bag for this trip.
Aspheric glass lens Even within the size constraints, I wanted good picture quality. I also wanted actual focusing, not "focus-free", which is weasel-speak for fixed focus. Hint: avoid cheaper Agfa.
LCD display For previewing pix, composing close-ups, end-of-arm shots, etc.
Optical viewfinder Research indicated that even the best LCD was hard to see in bright sunlight. Also, always having to hold the camera away from your face amplifies jitter.
Compact Flash Compact flash (CF) v. SmartMedia v. floppys. Floppys are slow, SmartMedia has low capacity. CF is about the same price as SmartMedia & comes in very high capacities.
The A5Z was then "last years model", about to be replaced by the A50. The A50 is essentially identical, but with a higher resolution. So, the A5Z was cheap ($350). I added a battery charger ($90), two more rechargable (NiMH) batteries ($30 x 2) and a second 8MB CF ($40). Remember, these are early '99 prices. Total cost: $570.
There were several cameras with similar capabilities (Olympus, Nikon and Minolta) but none were as small OR as cheap.
The results since then have been excellent. I have been very happy. Several of my friend have tried it, and bought their own A50's. They really like theirs as well.
The current versions of this camera are, the A50, S10 & S20. The S series has added USB, even higher resolution and Type-II CF (which can take a hard drive). If I was buying a new camera today, I think the S20 would be my baby.
One recommendation though: do buy a charger and extra batteries.
I like the Lyra, but it is not an MP3 player. It will only play encrypted.mpx files. Also, each mpx is encrypted with the flash card's unique ID, so it can't be transfered to another card and played, or uploaded back to your other system and played.
You can physically access the files on the card with other readers, but the proprietary windows only software they include only uses their flash drive. If you do copy an unencrypted.mp3 to the card (I did) you will get ear-damaging garbage through the headphones.
Of course, they don't say this on the box, on their web site, in the manual on their site, or in the manual in the box. It is only on a little yellow addendum included with the manual.
Way too much hassle for me. Pity, they almost got it right. Mine went back.
Client computers: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT or Macintosh OS 7.0 or later
I guess they're happy to make money off the opensource community's back, but not to support us.:-/ (And yes, I relize one can probably access this box using Samba/smbfs. It's just the principal of the thing.)
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Fox canceled Dark Angel to make room for Firefly... which is so funny. Like they had no weak spots in their lineup to put it in? Let's see, they have Sunday locked up with the Simpsons+King of the Hill, then Monday... umm, Tues.. no wait.. ummm. Frelling idiots.
I wonder if the Sci Fi channel outsourced their programming services to Fox?
He acquired the tickets and arranged time off for his folks to see it on premier day. I even got to bring my wife!
If you are reading this Larry: Thanks!
Forget mis-timing your message, how about hiding the spoiler in the message for those who have either time-shifted (like I have) or are in another country? It's waiting at home in my TiVo for me to watch. I haven't looked at the X Files all year, I only recorded this one to see the Lone Gunmen.
That was probably the most thoughtless, inconsiderate, stupid fucking thing I've seen anyone post in quite some time.
It's a great pity that Slashdot seem to have NO CONSCIOUS EDITORS.
Go to Hell.
Back around August 2001, that famous MSTD, the CodeRed worm was swarming across the Internet. One side effect of it's probing behavior was to trigger a bug in certain models of Cisco DSL modems. The result was a crashed modem.
The user could power cycle the modem, but it would die again shortly when their neighbor's infected system probed them. This was a catastrophe for the ISP's involved.
This effected many people, more than a million I believe.
Cisco put out a corrective CD-ROM that reflashed the CPE with fixed firmware. If this had not been possible, Cisco would probably have ended up paying to replace all those modems. Running off some CD-ROMs was a lot cheaper.
I remember taking a class (I think in BASIC) at a community college. I already new BASIC, had been programming in it for several years. (I was only taking the class for the easy credits.)
After a test was turned in, the teacher called me over. He showed me a code fragment submitted by another student. It was practically identical, even to the variable names. (Of course, in this old dialect of BASIC, variables were single letters.)
How did this happen? Outside this class, the other student and I were collaborating on an astrophysics simulator (also in BASIC) for another class. Today, our style of coding is called Extreme Programming. In the course of this we had tacitly developed common coding conventions and styles.
Even so, I was surprised how similar our independent output was.
Fortunately for me, the teacher was a friend of mine and he believed my explanation. Even so, I sensed some doubt on his part. Were he a relative stranger, things might have gotten messy.
According to this HowTo, you can have the ThinkNIC boot directly from the net without making or using a CDROM.
My own fault, really. I tried to work with them. (we're an unfunded, non-profit medical info site.) One week after I asked them for a stable IP, they cut us off. Real nice.
While I concur, there is an additional point the emphasize: these games are actually educational.
This aspect of the series was never highly promoted. One suspects that the "E" word is the mark of death for a computer game.
Don't feel bad. In a few days, someone else will post this story and it will be accepted.
That's what always seems to happen to me.
Perfection is unachievable. This was very good.
Statistics: My wife, I, one co-worker and her kid saw it (not together) and all liked it. That's a 4/0 like/dislike ratio in this neck of the woods.
I've been architecting large-oid client-server & distributed systems for quite a while. Before UML, Booch was used. No real complaints with it, either.
In my experience, UML (and OOD in general) had been a good thing. Not a distraction, no destroyed projects. Quite the opposite, in fact.
I'm an @home user. Before I learned the value of having a firewall (LRP rocks!), I was cracked once (IMAPd) and had my DNS killed (BIND buffer overflow; killed the daemon but didn't get root-kitted).
Based on my friends logs, an @home customer can expect constant port scans.
Don't get me wrong - I like the service; people just shouldn't run unsecured systems. (For that matter, nor should you leave the keys in your car. ;-)
If your O/S is inherently unsecure (like Windows), I would definetly employ a firewall. I use LRP (I like the control), but I know folks having good luck with those cute LinkSys units.
This is why Chemotherapy patients do so much better if they take some THC.
That wasn't Picard: that was Locutus of Borg.
Other comments were:
Short answer: the Canon PowerShot rocks!
Background:
Early 1999 my wife & I were planning a vacation & I wanted a digital camera. After some research, (and two-hours of owning a very bad Agfa) I decided on the Canon PowerShot A5 Zoom. My criteria (and rationale) were:
This was going to be in my pocket or in a small cam bag for this trip.
Even within the size constraints, I wanted good picture quality. I also wanted actual focusing, not "focus-free", which is weasel-speak for fixed focus. Hint: avoid cheaper Agfa.
For previewing pix, composing close-ups, end-of-arm shots, etc.
Research indicated that even the best LCD was hard to see in bright sunlight. Also, always having to hold the camera away from your face amplifies jitter.
Compact flash (CF) v. SmartMedia v. floppys. Floppys are slow, SmartMedia has low capacity. CF is about the same price as SmartMedia & comes in very high capacities.
The A5Z was then "last years model", about to be replaced by the A50. The A50 is essentially identical, but with a higher resolution. So, the A5Z was cheap ($350). I added a battery charger ($90), two more rechargable (NiMH) batteries ($30 x 2) and a second 8MB CF ($40). Remember, these are early '99 prices. Total cost: $570.
There were several cameras with similar capabilities (Olympus, Nikon and Minolta) but none were as small OR as cheap.
The results since then have been excellent. I have been very happy. Several of my friend have tried it, and bought their own A50's. They really like theirs as well.
The current versions of this camera are, the A50, S10 & S20. The S series has added USB, even higher resolution and Type-II CF (which can take a hard drive). If I was buying a new camera today, I think the S20 would be my baby.
One recommendation though: do buy a charger and extra batteries.
A cron job updates the pages once an hour. There's even a search feature.
Of course, you'll still want to do some organizing and categorizing.
You can physically access the files on the card with other readers, but the proprietary windows only software they include only uses their flash drive. If you do copy an unencrypted .mp3 to the card (I did) you will get ear-damaging garbage through the headphones.
Of course, they don't say this on the box, on their web site, in the manual on their site, or in the manual in the box. It is only on a little yellow addendum included with the manual.
Way too much hassle for me. Pity, they almost got it right. Mine went back.
It's still in development, so it might only be vapour.
These policies are unacceptable to me, so i shop at MicroCenter. They take back ANYTHING.
I guess they're happy to make money off the opensource community's back, but not to support us. :-/ (And yes, I relize one can probably access this box using Samba/smbfs. It's just the principal of the thing.)
Apparently, we have achieved a level of ease-of-use such that any idiot can post.
You're welcome, BTW. :->
Everything I ordered arrived in time. I ordered stuff from Sovietski and Lark books.
The passage:
Should have read:
;-)