Somehow I don't believe you, sorry. I run Win2k on a Celeron 366/64 Ram and I really dislike using it. Sure the basic OS runs fine, but just wait till you run any apps....
That is not necessarily true. Back in high school, a few years ago, the designated network administrator (ie. business teacher) explained to me that they were bound by a school board contract with IBM to use IBM software and buy IBM computers.
We were forced to use a really shitty piece of IBM software called ICLAS that I really wanted to get rid of, but alas we simply were not allowed. In addition, the teacher showed me a catalogue of IBM hardware and told me this is what they had to order from, which had special IBM school pricing -- and it was not cheaper. In fact, the opposite.
And I remember this so well because I remember getting in a lot of shit the day I decided to voice my opinions on this to the person listed as in charge of Information Technology on the school boards website.
Perhaps it was an inside job. The article says the theives were familiar with the building. Perhaps a disgrunted employee shed some light on the building security, hence the ease at which they were able to disable this alarm system that was indeed in place. Especially when you consider that they were confident enough to stick around for a while, it really makes you wonder whether they knew they weren't going to caught because someone else had set the whole thing up.
You know, I don't think I've laughed so hard as I did last night while reading those transcripts in a looong time.. You're right, some of those were hilarious. And the chelsea transcripts posted elsewhere. Thanks for posting this. You should've been modded way up.
It must have been around for a while because I have a vague memory of reading about it in the past, and the only place I would have read about this sort of thing would be a previous slashdot story about this same program.
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After those big ugly ads appeared on Slash, I finally decided to block slashdots ads as well. And now I happily read Slashdot 100% image free. I bet they did that on purpose. But I really don't need all that eye candy anyway. After reloading Slash 5 times a day for the last few years I was getting a little tired of them. I read for the content, after all.
Mozilla was slow on my p166 (Linux), so I didn't use it very often. But then I had to start doing web development work, and bought the cheapest new motherboard/cpu I could. So sure, on a p166/64 megs of ram it was admitidly not very usable, on my el cheapo $400 CDN AMD CPU/Motherboard/128 megs of ram combo the feb 10 nightly has been running just great with no problems at all. I don't think you can get away with saying rendering is slow, because its not. But I would believe its slower to popup and start with only 64megs of ram.
Exactly. And taking this a step furthur, its completely redundant to append.exe to files in/usr/bin, its safe to assume they are executable binaries simply by their position within the directory tree. Do you append.lib to files in/usr/lib? No. Its redundant.
Without the USA, Canada would be in a very different situation. Just tonight on The National they had a story about how Moncton NB was in trouble because all the companies were leaving. The solution? Entice US companies to set up shop in their city. 12000 jobs from US companies in the last few years. Eighty percent of our exports go there. So its nice that we have health care and all that, but thats not to say the US is wrong in their ways. Think about it, if the US economy had to start spending obscene amounts of money on their own health care and things, that would adversely affect ourselves. Less money to buy our goods.
I'm not saying you're doing it yourself, but it really irks me when Canadians spout their anti-American tripe, compeletly ignoring the fact that our own country is so inextricably tied to theirs. Economically, culturally, militarily, everything. Anything that benefits the US indirectly benefits ourselves. We need to accept this.
(Well I guess it doesn't benefit us when they go and do things like slap 30% duties on our wood, but you get the idea. I really wish Americans would accept that we are their biggest trading partner as well).
Perhaps you'd share a brief introduction to trigonometry or which ever math makes it possible, instead of trying to impress us with your mad perl skillz.
(Damn you Taco, its times like these when you need to post anonymously).
I think I have a pretty firm grasp of all the C language constructs, but when I see stuff like this it just baffles me. I don't have a clue how the hell that works out. Is that what they teach you in those math classes I should have taken?
The problem is the Cisco Network Academy Program. Now the CCNA is being taught is many high schools, and most high school students simply don't have the respect for the certification.
But what is bad for us certification holders, the dilution and devaluation of the certification, is still good business for Cisco. I'm sure it's been said elsewhere in this discussion, but all these kids are being trained on Cisco and will want to use the IOS once they are out in the real world. We all know this, its the same theory Microsoft uses.
Seeing as its perfectly legal to copy any musical works for personal use, ie CD's, I assume this priviledge extends to downloading as well. I'm not joking.
They are already on thin ice with 3/4 of the planet because of Bush's idiotic "axis of evil" statements
Did you know the Canadian who came up with that axis of evil thing got fired from the White House because his wife bragged about it to a couple of her friends in an email??
Do you know I would vote for anyone calling themselves the Canadian World Domination Party so fast it would make your head spin? I think thats the key to unseating the Liberals, forget this Canadian Alliance/Conservative bickering...World Domination is what Canadians really want!
What's stopping any indian from moving off the reserve and getting a real job in a real city? Anything? Not that I've ever heard. You honestly think its our fault their kids sit around sniffing gas all day because they have nothing better to do? Theres something seriously fucked about any parents who would let their kids be filmed by CBC television sniffing this gas and saying how cool it is, and let it be played on the national news countless times. Like, do people honestly think thats still our fault, just because my distant ancestors introduced them to alcohol?
Uh, you see that big box, the one that says download mozilla at the top? I think you click something in there. Personally I just go to ftp.mozilla.org whenever I feel the urge to upgrade. Btw, Mozilla 2002021006 is rock solid, I haven't noticed a single problem what so ever since I've been using this build.
While I understand that in practice we could never do this, at least any time soon, deep down in my heart I really wish we could.
While I was in Mexico this winter, one thing I kept thinking to myself over and over was how it just isn't fair that they can't go to the United States. They just can't cross the 20 foot river. It was so sad to me, because they were all so nice and I really wished they could enjoy the privileges we enjoy to the North. On the other hand, I didn't meet a single one who actually wanted to come here to live, but I still felt sad none the less.
I was born in London, Ontario, and still live here. Though I understand it, it's almost as though deep down in my heart I just don't want to accept that I simply can not drive 45 minutes to Port Huron, Michigan, and decide to live or work there. I just can't, and it's something that doesn't seem right to me. I wish we could come up with a way to do away with North American borders, for citizens of our three countries. Keep our countries sovereign, with their own laws (we don't need your DMCA here, thank you very much), but let the people choose where to live and work. Because I really wish I could stand by my statement that "no person should be rewarded for what was complete chance". (By the way, I'd be in Mexico before Port Huron, I don't simply want to steal your precious high-paying American jobs from you).
Speaking as a Canadian, I am absolutely outraged and disgusted by the supreme court ruling a few days ago that thousands of Indians do not need to pay any taxes whatsoever. Because of an apparent 'oral understanding', the indians weren't even bright enough to get it written down on paper. I just don't understand how someone can claim any rights based on their ancenstry. I mean, we were both born into this country by the same degree of chance, it's not my fault that I didn't happen to be indian. So because I'm not indian, I have to pay upwards of 50% tax on my earnings, while they can still get all the free health care they want and use our roads and get the protection of our military service for free. Its absolute, complete, fucking bullshit.
To any non-Canadians, this is a brand new ruling, that link has todays date. Perhaps if they live on reserves and actually hunt to sustain themselves, fine, let them get away with not paying taxes because their great-great-great-great-grandparents couldn't defend themselves. In summary, we all have the same rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, people can't help what country or ethnicity they are born into, its completely chance, and no person should be rewarded for what was complete chance. Especially if these indians think they want to live off their reserves and use our evil resources for free. This seriously upsets me.
Are you saying all these handheld things don't support other layouts? I've been typing almost exclusively on dvorak for several years now and that would really piss the hell out of me if they didn't. Probably almost as much as windows not allowing me to set up the right alt key to modify aoeuin and u for spanish accents, like in X. How are french and spanish people supposed to use these things?
Why not develop a browser plugin that acts as an X server, which executes the code on the server but displays in the client browser using the X network protocol. Seeing as we're all wasting our bandwidth anyway. Imagine little applets like xeyes, now imagine them as plugins in your browser. It would also be an open solution. In fact, I do not think I am inventing this idea, I think I read about it on the X Consortium (well whoever took over) page a couple years ago. I don't know what ever happened to it, but I think it would be a good idea once bandwidth is officially deemed plentiful. I can run small programs like xeyes remotely over cable just as though it were running locally. Even real apps like netscape can be used, though with slight delays when you click menu items and things.
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Maybe because mine is an upgraded version from Win98. However, that shouldn't matter.
Somehow I don't believe you, sorry. I run Win2k on a Celeron 366/64 Ram and I really dislike using it. Sure the basic OS runs fine, but just wait till you run any apps....
Remember they're running Win2k, not Linux =)
That is not necessarily true. Back in high school, a few years ago, the designated network administrator (ie. business teacher) explained to me that they were bound by a school board contract with IBM to use IBM software and buy IBM computers.
We were forced to use a really shitty piece of IBM software called ICLAS that I really wanted to get rid of, but alas we simply were not allowed. In addition, the teacher showed me a catalogue of IBM hardware and told me this is what they had to order from, which had special IBM school pricing -- and it was not cheaper. In fact, the opposite.
And I remember this so well because I remember getting in a lot of shit the day I decided to voice my opinions on this to the person listed as in charge of Information Technology on the school boards website.
Perhaps it was an inside job. The article says the theives were familiar with the building. Perhaps a disgrunted employee shed some light on the building security, hence the ease at which they were able to disable this alarm system that was indeed in place. Especially when you consider that they were confident enough to stick around for a while, it really makes you wonder whether they knew they weren't going to caught because someone else had set the whole thing up.
You know, I don't think I've laughed so hard as I did last night while reading those transcripts in a looong time.. You're right, some of those were hilarious. And the chelsea transcripts posted elsewhere. Thanks for posting this. You should've been modded way up.
It must have been around for a while because I have a vague memory of reading about it in the past, and the only place I would have read about this sort of thing would be a previous slashdot story about this same program.
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After those big ugly ads appeared on Slash, I finally decided to block slashdots ads as well. And now I happily read Slashdot 100% image free. I bet they did that on purpose. But I really don't need all that eye candy anyway. After reloading Slash 5 times a day for the last few years I was getting a little tired of them. I read for the content, after all.
Mozilla was slow on my p166 (Linux), so I didn't use it very often. But then I had to start doing web development work, and bought the cheapest new motherboard/cpu I could. So sure, on a p166/64 megs of ram it was admitidly not very usable, on my el cheapo $400 CDN AMD CPU/Motherboard/128 megs of ram combo the feb 10 nightly has been running just great with no problems at all. I don't think you can get away with saying rendering is slow, because its not. But I would believe its slower to popup and start with only 64megs of ram.
Exactly. And taking this a step furthur, its completely redundant to append .exe to files in /usr/bin, its safe to assume they are executable binaries simply by their position within the directory tree. Do you append .lib to files in /usr/lib? No. Its redundant.
Thats pretty neat too. I really need to learn some math one of these days....
To the others, if you see this, thanks for your responses as well. It's quite interesting what you guys can do..
Without the USA, Canada would be in a very different situation. Just tonight on The National they had a story about how Moncton NB was in trouble because all the companies were leaving. The solution? Entice US companies to set up shop in their city. 12000 jobs from US companies in the last few years. Eighty percent of our exports go there. So its nice that we have health care and all that, but thats not to say the US is wrong in their ways. Think about it, if the US economy had to start spending obscene amounts of money on their own health care and things, that would adversely affect ourselves. Less money to buy our goods.
I'm not saying you're doing it yourself, but it really irks me when Canadians spout their anti-American tripe, compeletly ignoring the fact that our own country is so inextricably tied to theirs. Economically, culturally, militarily, everything. Anything that benefits the US indirectly benefits ourselves. We need to accept this.
(Well I guess it doesn't benefit us when they go and do things like slap 30% duties on our wood, but you get the idea. I really wish Americans would accept that we are their biggest trading partner as well).
Perhaps you'd share a brief introduction to trigonometry or which ever math makes it possible, instead of trying to impress us with your mad perl skillz.
(Damn you Taco, its times like these when you need to post anonymously).
I think I have a pretty firm grasp of all the C language constructs, but when I see stuff like this it just baffles me. I don't have a clue how the hell that works out. Is that what they teach you in those math classes I should have taken?
The problem is the Cisco Network Academy Program. Now the CCNA is being taught is many high schools, and most high school students simply don't have the respect for the certification.
But what is bad for us certification holders, the dilution and devaluation of the certification, is still good business for Cisco. I'm sure it's been said elsewhere in this discussion, but all these kids are being trained on Cisco and will want to use the IOS once they are out in the real world. We all know this, its the same theory Microsoft uses.
(I have the CCNP)
Seeing as its perfectly legal to copy any musical works for personal use, ie CD's, I assume this priviledge extends to downloading as well. I'm not joking.
They are already on thin ice with 3/4 of the planet because of Bush's idiotic "axis of evil" statements
Did you know the Canadian who came up with that axis of evil thing got fired from the White House because his wife bragged about it to a couple of her friends in an email??
Do you know I would vote for anyone calling themselves the Canadian World Domination Party so fast it would make your head spin? I think thats the key to unseating the Liberals, forget this Canadian Alliance/Conservative bickering...World Domination is what Canadians really want!
What's stopping any indian from moving off the reserve and getting a real job in a real city? Anything? Not that I've ever heard. You honestly think its our fault their kids sit around sniffing gas all day because they have nothing better to do? Theres something seriously fucked about any parents who would let their kids be filmed by CBC television sniffing this gas and saying how cool it is, and let it be played on the national news countless times. Like, do people honestly think thats still our fault, just because my distant ancestors introduced them to alcohol?
Uh, you see that big box, the one that says download mozilla at the top? I think you click something in there. Personally I just go to ftp.mozilla.org whenever I feel the urge to upgrade. Btw, Mozilla 2002021006 is rock solid, I haven't noticed a single problem what so ever since I've been using this build.
While I understand that in practice we could never do this, at least any time soon, deep down in my heart I really wish we could.
While I was in Mexico this winter, one thing I kept thinking to myself over and over was how it just isn't fair that they can't go to the United States. They just can't cross the 20 foot river. It was so sad to me, because they were all so nice and I really wished they could enjoy the privileges we enjoy to the North. On the other hand, I didn't meet a single one who actually wanted to come here to live, but I still felt sad none the less.
I was born in London, Ontario, and still live here. Though I understand it, it's almost as though deep down in my heart I just don't want to accept that I simply can not drive 45 minutes to Port Huron, Michigan, and decide to live or work there. I just can't, and it's something that doesn't seem right to me. I wish we could come up with a way to do away with North American borders, for citizens of our three countries. Keep our countries sovereign, with their own laws (we don't need your DMCA here, thank you very much), but let the people choose where to live and work. Because I really wish I could stand by my statement that "no person should be rewarded for what was complete chance". (By the way, I'd be in Mexico before Port Huron, I don't simply want to steal your precious high-paying American jobs from you).
Speaking as a Canadian, I am absolutely outraged and disgusted by the supreme court ruling a few days ago that thousands of Indians do not need to pay any taxes whatsoever. Because of an apparent 'oral understanding', the indians weren't even bright enough to get it written down on paper. I just don't understand how someone can claim any rights based on their ancenstry. I mean, we were both born into this country by the same degree of chance, it's not my fault that I didn't happen to be indian. So because I'm not indian, I have to pay upwards of 50% tax on my earnings, while they can still get all the free health care they want and use our roads and get the protection of our military service for free. Its absolute, complete, fucking bullshit.
To any non-Canadians, this is a brand new ruling, that link has todays date. Perhaps if they live on reserves and actually hunt to sustain themselves, fine, let them get away with not paying taxes because their great-great-great-great-grandparents couldn't defend themselves. In summary, we all have the same rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, people can't help what country or ethnicity they are born into, its completely chance, and no person should be rewarded for what was complete chance. Especially if these indians think they want to live off their reserves and use our evil resources for free. This seriously upsets me.
Are you saying all these handheld things don't support other layouts? I've been typing almost exclusively on dvorak for several years now and that would really piss the hell out of me if they didn't. Probably almost as much as windows not allowing me to set up the right alt key to modify aoeuin and u for spanish accents, like in X. How are french and spanish people supposed to use these things?
Why not develop a browser plugin that acts as an X server, which executes the code on the server but displays in the client browser using the X network protocol. Seeing as we're all wasting our bandwidth anyway. Imagine little applets like xeyes, now imagine them as plugins in your browser. It would also be an open solution. In fact, I do not think I am inventing this idea, I think I read about it on the X Consortium (well whoever took over) page a couple years ago. I don't know what ever happened to it, but I think it would be a good idea once bandwidth is officially deemed plentiful. I can run small programs like xeyes remotely over cable just as though it were running locally. Even real apps like netscape can be used, though with slight delays when you click menu items and things.