Oddly enough, it was a retail store that got me involved in linux. My windows install had become rotten, and being a shitty OEM one, didn't come with reinstall discs.
So, I was faced with a choice. Pay more then a hundred dollars for Windows, or pick up this 'Red Hat' thing. After all, it looked good enough on the box, and it was only thirty bucks. Sounded like a good deal to me, so I brought it home and installed it.
Got a user prompt. Had no idea what to do. Tried to send it back. No luck. 'no returns on open software' So I had to spend time getting it to work. (and by work, I meant a GUI).
Finally, it worked. Been using it ever since, of course, now I dualboot for one game. And I run on a liscence that was given to me: win2kPro
"That idea [about patenting spam] came across better when I had thought about a second time. The first time around, it seemed to be a stupid troll. The second time, it didn't seem so bad."
Actually, when I thought about this, it came across as a better idea then I had first thought. Although it would be a completely unenforceable patent to the gobs of prior art, it would force all those dirty spammers out into the open unless they wanted a judgment placed against them by default.
Of course, this is only for for domestic spammers, and we all know how many of those there are. I know there is something about patents which makes them vaugely international, but I'm not sure how that works.
Funny, yes. Timeframe makes it logical though. This is when I had a Crushed Athlon sitting in the corner becuase I was too ambitious and mounted the heatsink wrong.
I remember having a p200 with 64MB of RAM, and finding a AMDK6-2 350 w/ 256MB Of RAM in the hallway.
I also found a model M keyboard, as well as a 21" monitor (of which the image quality was fairly low, so I am now using the 19" monitor I found (which only needed a new cable))
I also found a couple of 16 port hubs, even some token ring stuff.
I could go on for hours about all of the cool s tuff I have found.
The problem with this analogy is that magazines are paper. They take up space. They use resources simply in existing.
Not only that, but it's fairly easier to filter them out, if you were so inclined. I still think filtering is wrong, but that's becuase I had no internet acess but that at school for some time, and trying to get past such fun categories as "Non-Traditional Religions", "Political Groups", "Drugs", "Advocacy Groups", "Sex" (Not pornography, "Sex"), "Hacking" (it actually calls it that), or "Illegal/Questionable"..
Well, personally, if I was going for redundancy, I would go for RAID, then double offsite backups to either tape or DVD-R. But that's probably overkill, and most people use RAID for speed advantages now, anyways.
RAID gives you some added security, it is *not* a silver bullet - even with hot-spares and several replacement drives handy, a simultaneous failure of 3 drives could potentially bring down nearly any RAID array.
But then you have to consider this: what is the likely hood of three disks failing simultaneously?
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Mage?
You would like 'Requiem For A Dream'.
Get the full edition, though, not the Blockbuster 'Edited Edition'
"Lisa, in this house, we follow the laws of thermodynamics!"
Dr. Alan Grant: Mr. Hammond, after careful consideration, I've decided *not* to endorse your park.
John Hammond: So have I.
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Well, they do sell games, but they probably don't do so in volume.
Oddly enough, it was a retail store that got me involved in linux. My windows install had become rotten, and being a shitty OEM one, didn't come with reinstall discs.
So, I was faced with a choice. Pay more then a hundred dollars for Windows, or pick up this 'Red Hat' thing. After all, it looked good enough on the box, and it was only thirty bucks. Sounded like a good deal to me, so I brought it home and installed it.
Got a user prompt. Had no idea what to do. Tried to send it back. No luck. 'no returns on open software' So I had to spend time getting it to work. (and by work, I meant a GUI).
Finally, it worked. Been using it ever since, of course, now I dualboot for one game. And I run on a liscence that was given to me: win2kPro
Office Depot.
I can't imagine that games sell too well there, although they might have a small volume of sales.
If you had the chance to get into their house and rewire their phone, why the hell wouldn't you just shoot them?
In particular, it is perfectly OK to make false claims as long as it can't be proven that the claim is false.
You can do a lot of things as long as you don't get caught...
Ok, admittedly, it was a bit malformed.
What I meant to say was this:
"That idea [about patenting spam] came across better when I had thought about a second time. The first time around, it seemed to be a stupid troll. The second time, it didn't seem so bad."
Actually, when I thought about this, it came across as a better idea then I had first thought. Although it would be a completely unenforceable patent to the gobs of prior art, it would force all those dirty spammers out into the open unless they wanted a judgment placed against them by default.
Of course, this is only for for domestic spammers, and we all know how many of those there are. I know there is something about patents which makes them vaugely international, but I'm not sure how that works.
Amen to that.
Invader zim used the effects very well, at that. Subtle, but there.
Ha!
Thank you...
Low tech solution made my day again. Good laugh, excellent point, all too true.
Funny, yes. Timeframe makes it logical though. This is when I had a Crushed Athlon sitting in the corner becuase I was too ambitious and mounted the heatsink wrong.
I think this is a bit optimistic. I get 300 peices of email a day, and I'm lucky if more then 50 are legitimate mail.
Yeah, I've picked up a whole bunch of stuff.
I remember having a p200 with 64MB of RAM, and finding a AMDK6-2 350 w/ 256MB Of RAM in the hallway.
I also found a model M keyboard, as well as a 21" monitor (of which the image quality was fairly low, so I am now using the 19" monitor I found (which only needed a new cable))
I also found a couple of 16 port hubs, even some token ring stuff.
I could go on for hours about all of the cool s tuff I have found.
The problem with this analogy is that magazines are paper. They take up space. They use resources simply in existing.
Not only that, but it's fairly easier to filter them out, if you were so inclined. I still think filtering is wrong, but that's becuase I had no internet acess but that at school for some time, and trying to get past such fun categories as "Non-Traditional Religions", "Political Groups", "Drugs", "Advocacy Groups", "Sex" (Not pornography, "Sex"), "Hacking" (it actually calls it that), or "Illegal/Questionable"..
Sir, would you like an IP with that order?
Should I super-size your bandwidth?
Honestly, I'm wondering what the training implications of this will be.
Well, I think in this case, he has a legal basis for saying "it's not me, it was one of these IPs"
No one would likely beleive him, but it's a bit better.
Why is that you can't just have a phone that will let you use an rj-11 connector and dial out as pure modulated audio data?
Well, personally, if I was going for redundancy, I would go for RAID, then double offsite backups to either tape or DVD-R. But that's probably overkill, and most people use RAID for speed advantages now, anyways.
RAID gives you some added security, it is *not* a silver bullet - even with hot-spares and several replacement drives handy, a simultaneous failure of 3 drives could potentially bring down nearly any RAID array.
But then you have to consider this: what is the likely hood of three disks failing simultaneously?
You're the first to have commented on it. I would have gone for something more, but then I would have had to put it in Hex.
*shrug*
Mabye so, but damn proud of it. (although I'm more a geek then anything)
Hence the name Ethernet.
The original plan was to be wireless, and then Xerox (I think) needed a cable to get information from multiple computers to the printers quickly.