From the west end of London. My dad said my uncle was a real diamond, he was well 'ard. His wife was pretty tough, although described as a gem in the rough. And his dad was an undertaker, so he was pretty stiff sometimes.
Mantis and MediaWiki. Works pretty well. We transferred from the.NET demo version of their IssueTracker which came as example code from some Microsoft site, our team installed it on a box in the corner. Then the sysadmin guy noticed it and then used the same software for his job tracking, then the marketing department liked it and they got a version. They loved the.NET thing, we hated it although it did the job. So now we're on mantis and they're using the old one still, until maybe they see what ours does now.
Same thing with the MediaWiki, we installed it, filled it in with all our doco, then someone else got wind of it and like the way that anyone could contribute to the doco project. Now we have a few wiki's around the place.
Only the start of your problems. Right now, 1 Cowry shell is worth around 3840 Rupees. Once the US declares bankruptcy, the Cowry is looking like a smart alternative.
I worked at one place where our room was a couple of floors underground (very depressing place) and we wanted to listen to the cricket on the radio (pre internet days). Armed with a crappy radio we found we could get perfect reception by connecting to the air conditioning vents with a set of crocodile clips purchased from Tandy's.
Another one I remember is something low-tec invented by some admin staff, we had a policy set in place that locked workstations after 5 minutes of activity, the PC's were severely locked down so you couldn't change this. Turned out the admin section of the company despised this as they would do something on their accounts package, talk to someone on the phone and by the time the phone call had ended the PC had locked itself requiring their password to unlock it. One lady actually took a small clock, took the plastic front off and attached a piece of paper to the second hand, when she wasn't doing anything, she placed the mouse in front of the clock so that when the second hand went past, it moved the mouse slightly stopping it from locking. When the guys in tech support found it, she was visited by practically every IT person just to see it in action.
P2P is the scourge of the internet. Slashdot is the pirate of the internet. Fark.com is the ninja of the internet. myspace is the carry on film of the internet.
1. They haven't built a flying car 2. Steve Ballmer has not done a backflip off the top of a mountain while robots shoot ninjas from outer space 3. Neither Steve Ballmer or Bill Gates have stated their preference of pirates, ninjas or formation kilted scotsmen. 4. Microsoft do not make pencil sharpeners, I have blunt pencils I need to sharpen and there's no solution planned by Microsoft. 5. They don't subsidise my ice cream habit, they should because ice cream is awesome and they have more money than me 6. I fear that in the next 10 years they will invent a new type of particle and insert it into our physical world, called a Microsofton it will place a blue filter on everything.
Logging onto the local BBS, trading stuff using my C64 and other non-computer friends not understanding, not wanting to understand and making fun of the general nerdish nature of the whole thing. I was hooked then, I think the whole connectiveness and interactivity thing wore off after a while. The BBS's changed into free university net access, more FTP than anything else, exchanging copies of the latest Mosaic. Still nerdy to every non-computer person I knew.
Now they have paid internet accounts, and they're checking their mail every 30 seconds and chatting to 50 people simultaneously on MSN.
I've been without internet access for a couple of months at a time and during that time never felt the urge to sneak on to check mail or read a site for news. Maybe this addiction doesn't suit me.
Slashdot Mirror
I work from home=I make my own PB&J's
I work at an office=Someone else makes my PB&J's
FTW!
When I shutdown my PC. Turns out the bearing was on its way out.
An excuse to wear shades in a cinema. It's the 80's all over again!
We have some tech which could enable a plane with a computer controlled thingy and coloured smoke make pretty pictures in the sky?
The fact that the end of level boss is Pedobear.
From the west end of London. My dad said my uncle was a real diamond, he was well 'ard. His wife was pretty tough, although described as a gem in the rough. And his dad was an undertaker, so he was pretty stiff sometimes.
Mantis and MediaWiki. Works pretty well. We transferred from the .NET demo version of their IssueTracker which came as example code from some Microsoft site, our team installed it on a box in the corner. Then the sysadmin guy noticed it and then used the same software for his job tracking, then the marketing department liked it and they got a version. They loved the .NET thing, we hated it although it did the job. So now we're on mantis and they're using the old one still, until maybe they see what ours does now.
Same thing with the MediaWiki, we installed it, filled it in with all our doco, then someone else got wind of it and like the way that anyone could contribute to the doco project. Now we have a few wiki's around the place.
dPod
dPhone
dBook
etc...
Only the start of your problems. Right now, 1 Cowry shell is worth around 3840 Rupees. Once the US declares bankruptcy, the Cowry is looking like a smart alternative.
I sit them in front of a computer, don't tell them anything and I poke them with a stick if they do something wrong.
With a Ferarri when you stick it in reverse.
Just by watching Dora the explorer. Thanks Nick Jr.
I recommend not using nylon sheets, an hours worth of charge really hurts.
Pointy teeth!
Damn, now I'll have to change the name of my emo-ska band.
And still no cure for ca... oh.
No 'gators in Australia. I think the fourth tooth in our clips sticks out further too.
I need something to lock my brain up after 5 minutes of activity, it's obviously on a course of its own after that... :)
I worked at one place where our room was a couple of floors underground (very depressing place) and we wanted to listen to the cricket on the radio (pre internet days). Armed with a crappy radio we found we could get perfect reception by connecting to the air conditioning vents with a set of crocodile clips purchased from Tandy's.
Another one I remember is something low-tec invented by some admin staff, we had a policy set in place that locked workstations after 5 minutes of activity, the PC's were severely locked down so you couldn't change this. Turned out the admin section of the company despised this as they would do something on their accounts package, talk to someone on the phone and by the time the phone call had ended the PC had locked itself requiring their password to unlock it. One lady actually took a small clock, took the plastic front off and attached a piece of paper to the second hand, when she wasn't doing anything, she placed the mouse in front of the clock so that when the second hand went past, it moved the mouse slightly stopping it from locking. When the guys in tech support found it, she was visited by practically every IT person just to see it in action.
P2P is the scourge of the internet.
Slashdot is the pirate of the internet.
Fark.com is the ninja of the internet.
myspace is the carry on film of the internet.
1. They haven't built a flying car
2. Steve Ballmer has not done a backflip off the top of a mountain while robots shoot ninjas from outer space
3. Neither Steve Ballmer or Bill Gates have stated their preference of pirates, ninjas or formation kilted scotsmen.
4. Microsoft do not make pencil sharpeners, I have blunt pencils I need to sharpen and there's no solution planned by Microsoft.
5. They don't subsidise my ice cream habit, they should because ice cream is awesome and they have more money than me
6. I fear that in the next 10 years they will invent a new type of particle and insert it into our physical world, called a Microsofton it will place a blue filter on everything.
Logging onto the local BBS, trading stuff using my C64 and other non-computer friends not understanding, not wanting to understand and making fun of the general nerdish nature of the whole thing. I was hooked then, I think the whole connectiveness and interactivity thing wore off after a while. The BBS's changed into free university net access, more FTP than anything else, exchanging copies of the latest Mosaic. Still nerdy to every non-computer person I knew.
Now they have paid internet accounts, and they're checking their mail every 30 seconds and chatting to 50 people simultaneously on MSN.
I've been without internet access for a couple of months at a time and during that time never felt the urge to sneak on to check mail or read a site for news. Maybe this addiction doesn't suit me.
Complexity scales badly. Flexibility is usually the first casualty of war.
Right tool for the job. I think you're seeing Java as the hammer, and every problem is a nail.
Anyones palm could turn pro, there's enough source material around to help.