Just an FWI, according to your own math, a rupee millionaire has the equivilant of $22,222 US, which would place him/her in the US is not a whole lot, hell, that would bairly pay for a single year at a good college.
Of which all of them will be yelling for the head of the ISP in their country who is blocking the sites, and not at the sites themselves for saying no to extortion.
I mean seriously, with the economic downfall and.com bust, do they really think that the few remaining sites will even give a crap if India can or can not see their sites? I personally don't think that any site should have to pay a toll have the privlidge of being accessable in a country, and I certainly think that the websites should just say "Screw you" and have it be the ISP's users that yell back at the ISP because that is where the real problem is.
hmmm...actually, you might be correct, now that I think about it, as the inside out condom will expose the condom under it to the fluids of the first girl... New solution!
Sterilize the condom after the first use, hell they are "unbreakable" so that would then also lead them to be resistant to temperatures needed for sterilization process:)
No, if the condoms are in fact unbreakable, this works:
wear both condoms, one on top of another, have sex 1st girl
remove outer condom, put it back on inside out, have sex 2nd girl
remove outer condom completely. have sex 3rd girl
try and figure out what to do with condom still on with 3 loads of man fun in it.
Now I myself had a similar problem a year ago, well, I lost my driver's license in New Orleans. Took about 30 minutes and the fact that they could clearly see that it was a return ticket, and had 4 friends vouching for me (as well as a valid credit card)....
Not really if you think about it for a second. If the theory is that they were created from the "big bang", then they were all oriented most likely in some spherical pattern and moved out from there. Now gravity would affect the direction as well as colisions. But all in all, any strangelets that do hit the earth would most likely be comming from the same general orientation to the solar system, and thus would pass through the earth at a certain angle, it just happens that they seem to come in from either the top or botom of out solar system, meaning perpendicular to the orbital plain that the planets create around the sun. And thus, would tend to go through antartica.
But since these stragelets do not seem to be going directly perpendicular, they probably are coming in from some angle to the solar system's orientation that is not quite perpendicular, but reasonably close to it. Add that in with the earth's axis of rotation being several degree's off of perpendicular to the orbital patern, and you get the strangelets going in on random points around the earth (because of the spin) that have a trajectory that seems to pass through Antartica.
It all makes sense when you start to think about it.
that one of the big guys finally realized that they were only screwing themselves by going after people who just wanted to allow a product to have more uses then it origionally did, especially when they were not making any money on it.
I waited a week and called them up, that was when they said they ordered the part and were still waiting for it. A week after that, when I called again was when they told me the replaced my hard drive. The next week when I called they said the part was backordered. The next time I called I said I was comming to pick it up that day, no matter the condition of the system cause I was without a PC for way too long to fix a problem that wasn't really a bad problem, it was just inconvient to have to reboot the system everytime I wanted to change a CD...
Mine was a dead CD-ROM drive. It was 6 months since I bought the system, and the drive would not eject a CD, it would only open before the boot sequence.
Anyway, I figure they would have it fixed within 2-3 days, it's only a CD-ROM replacement, not like its difficult or anything...
They did some other testing on the system and saw that the hard drive had a whole mess of bad sectors on it (power supply was faulty and cause lots of power-losses during writing to the hard drive, that at least was fixed by HP, who sent out one of their repair men to my house cause it was within a month of getting the system)...We so they decide to replace my hard drive, I.E., just removed the old one, no data backed up, and sent it back to HP, and put in a new one.
So now, I have a computer with a broken CD-ROM drive and a blank hard drive. They said they would have reloaded the hard drive, but they couldn't get the system to boot, even with a boot disk. Its a good thing I at least HAVE CLUE ONE ABOUT HOW COMPUTERS WORK.
When I get it home and take it apart (since it wouldn't boot, just like they said), it takes all of 10 seconds to see that 1) they placed the hard drive on the same IDE channel as the CD-ROM, 2) Both the CD-ROM and the hard drive were set as master
I call them up immediatly and completly tell off the manager of their repair center, about how incompitant the people were that worked on this system. And made a formal complaint to corporate and HP as they were a certified repair center. Note that at this time, my CD-ROM drive had still not been replaced and/or repaired. Next day I get a call from CompUSA saying that they recieved a new CD-ROM for my system, they couldn't get the same one that I origionally had, but they got the latest one from HP for my system, and that they could install it if I wanted, or I could just come by and pick it up and install it myself (without it breaking my warrentee too)...Hmmm...I really wonder what finally got their asses moving, HP calling them up or corporate...I am betting on HP personally.
Needless to say, there was no way I was letting them touch the system to install the CD-ROM drive.
I don't know about you, but my AP (and another router) has an option to specify what the external MAC address on it. Basically it is meant to be used so that you can type in the MAC address of the system that was usually on that link (cable modem or DSL). Some cable modem networks were setup in such a way that you could only access the net while using a system whos MAC address was in their database, this would supposedly keep people from putting in routers, etc., and force them to purchase extra IP addresses from the cable modem network. Well, the guys who made routers were not stupid and saw that they might lose some business, so they came up with a way to spoof the external MAC address of their routers.
I guess you havn't heard of USB 2.0? It was slow in the 1.0-1.1 specs, but it has been GREATLY improved upon with the 2.0 specs...
USB 2.0 extends the speed of the peripheral-to-PC connection from 12 Mbits/s on USB 1.1 to 480 Mbits/s -- 40 times more than current capabilities.
Brush up on your specs before posting something like this, even if you are anonymous.
Buffer Overflows? Maybe, beta had memory leaks...
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It is one of the reason why I am skeptipal about the release version because of how poorly the beta ran on my computer. For one project, all I had was a graphic image and 30 text boxes. There was a second image in red-scale (easier then using grey) that when the top image was clicked, it would get the red color value and use that to lookup what area was actually clicked (image had very strange region shapes, if I had used squares for click region, about 90% of the spaces would have large amounts of gaps)...anyway, the memory usage for displaying this project, 1.7 gigs. That is correct 1.7 gigs for 2 images and 30 text boxes with some click code.
After closing that project, memory usage would be 1 gig, when it is normally 80 megs. Even after running a memory clearing program, it would only come down to 800 megs, and a reboot was the only way to clear that. I personally will not use.NET or Visual Studios 7.0 until I am certain it will not use much more memory then VS 6.0
When I started college, all I knew was that I wanted to do something with computers. As such, I went to Drexel University and started out as an Electrical and Computer Engineer. The real good thing about Drexel is the fact that they have a co-op program (other then that I don't know why else you would go there, but it is really hard to beat the co-op system they have). After going on my first co-op, I actually wound up working as a Unix Network and System Administrator, and I loved it. As I was killing myself in the engineering program (long story, but sufice it to say you get really screwed at Drexel as an engineer compaired to the other majors, quick hint, just for the calculus classes, engineers cover the same material in 3 semisters that all the other majors cover in 4 and we only get 3 credits per class while everyone else got 4, so we get 9 credits of calc that covers the same as 16 credits that every other major gets, this is pretty much the same for EVERY class you take as an engineer. I never had a singe class that was 1 hour of class time per week per credit, it usually worked out to 1.8 - 2.5 class hours per credit, hell I had a 3 credit class that had 9 hours of class a week!)
Anyway after that first co-op, I knew exactly what I wanted to do, and I didn't need to have an electrical and computer engineering degree to go do it. So I changed majors to Computer Science, since I already learned just about everything you get taught in the Information Sciences and Technology degree from actually working, I thought I might as well learn to write programs.
That 150MB a day would kill just about EVERYONE! I mean seriously. I HAVEN'T EVEN DONE ANYTHING but go to slashdot today and get my email (only 40 messages) and ALREADY I have 530 MB DOWNLOAD!!!! (with everything other then the above email and slashdot being nimdia and Code Red!).
How are they going to tell me that "Sorry you have already used up your limit for today, even though its 12:03am." And I can PROVE that I didn't use the bandwidth!!!! I have my firewall logs.
cause if you did you would have noticed the nice BIG, (sudo quote) We will not be held responsible for any damages this software causes you or your business (end sudo quote) section. If I am not mistaken, you signed a CONTRACT that removed all responsibility for any problems you have with MS's software.
See this is my WHOLE POINT! We are not using it across most of our systems. They still have MS software, even though they PAID the development costs of NSA Linux!!!!!
And the reason why they don't is beyond me. Truthfully, if the reason is to support "our" software industry, its just pathetic. They even charged MS with being a monopoly.
The real problem is that no one in the government knows any better. Why the hell do you think we get all these crap laws like DMCA in the first place? Its cause the very loud kaa-ching sound of coins in big business's pocket drown out the yells of the under-funded consumer group lobiests. And the fact that there is only maybe 10 people in congress who had a person computer before the age of 20.
Well, like I said before, I work up today and now the DNS server I was using yesturday no longer works. Again, luckily I plugged in 4 new DNS servers and now I am fine again. I am really thinking of loading up BIND 8, the only problem is that this is my laptop, and to be honest, it will use more resourses then I have to spare right now (until I get another 128 megs of RAM)... Anyway, I have still recieved NO OFFICIAL contact from Comcast at ALL. You would think they would send me a mail message or even post a message over thier Digital Cable TV service (it supports a messaging system almost like email).
Lost DNS somtime between 7pm and now, but luckily I wrote down the IP for slashdot.org and some very generous people had posted some DNS servers to use... I am using verison's DNS right now, which isn't that bad considering I use Version DSL from my apartment, so in theory I am paying for its use already.
This is most likely a reverse DNS issue. Some systems use a reverse DNS lookup to make the connection, and if your system is not setup properly in the DNS tables you will get screwed with problems that you are encountering. Try doing a "nslookup localhost" then do "nslookup "
If the above 2 commands still give you the same system, then you should be ok and it is someother type of issue, but if they are not the same, then that is the cause.
Its still working here. Seems most people are having problems with DNS servers, but the one I use if run by Comcast, and it still seems to be fine. I still have my static IP as well....
Looks like we dodged the bullet, unless you think that Excite@HOME people will be pulling the plug later then their earliest time that they were allowed to do so. But that just doesn't make sense. If you are shuting down cause of operating costs, you would want to shutdown at the earliest possible time to minimize damages. Yeah I know there are extenuating circumstances here with the negotiations with AT&T, but seriously, if they were gonna do it, they would do it now, not later.
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Just an FWI, according to your own math, a rupee millionaire has the equivilant of $22,222 US, which would place him/her in the US is not a whole lot, hell, that would bairly pay for a single year at a good college.
Of which all of them will be yelling for the head of the ISP in their country who is blocking the sites, and not at the sites themselves for saying no to extortion.
I mean seriously, with the economic downfall and .com bust, do they really think that the few remaining sites will even give a crap if India can or can not see their sites? I personally don't think that any site should have to pay a toll have the privlidge of being accessable in a country, and I certainly think that the websites should just say "Screw you" and have it be the ISP's users that yell back at the ISP because that is where the real problem is.
hmmm...actually, you might be correct, now that I think about it, as the inside out condom will expose the condom under it to the fluids of the first girl... New solution!
:)
Sterilize the condom after the first use, hell they are "unbreakable" so that would then also lead them to be resistant to temperatures needed for sterilization process
No, if the condoms are in fact unbreakable, this works:
wear both condoms, one on top of another, have sex 1st girl
remove outer condom, put it back on inside out, have sex 2nd girl
remove outer condom completely. have sex 3rd girl
try and figure out what to do with condom still on with 3 loads of man fun in it.
ROFL! I am sorry but that is some funny stuff :)
Now I myself had a similar problem a year ago, well, I lost my driver's license in New Orleans. Took about 30 minutes and the fact that they could clearly see that it was a return ticket, and had 4 friends vouching for me (as well as a valid credit card)....
Anyway, that is some good stuff.
But since these stragelets do not seem to be going directly perpendicular, they probably are coming in from some angle to the solar system's orientation that is not quite perpendicular, but reasonably close to it. Add that in with the earth's axis of rotation being several degree's off of perpendicular to the orbital patern, and you get the strangelets going in on random points around the earth (because of the spin) that have a trajectory that seems to pass through Antartica.
It all makes sense when you start to think about it.
that one of the big guys finally realized that they were only screwing themselves by going after people who just wanted to allow a product to have more uses then it origionally did, especially when they were not making any money on it.
nods in agreement...Pretty bad huh? That's why I will never go to them again (or most other places as well)...and they made real stupid mistakes too.
I waited a week and called them up, that was when they said they ordered the part and were still waiting for it. A week after that, when I called again was when they told me the replaced my hard drive. The next week when I called they said the part was backordered. The next time I called I said I was comming to pick it up that day, no matter the condition of the system cause I was without a PC for way too long to fix a problem that wasn't really a bad problem, it was just inconvient to have to reboot the system everytime I wanted to change a CD...
Mine was a dead CD-ROM drive. It was 6 months since I bought the system, and the drive would not eject a CD, it would only open before the boot sequence.
Anyway, I figure they would have it fixed within 2-3 days, it's only a CD-ROM replacement, not like its difficult or anything...
They did some other testing on the system and saw that the hard drive had a whole mess of bad sectors on it (power supply was faulty and cause lots of power-losses during writing to the hard drive, that at least was fixed by HP, who sent out one of their repair men to my house cause it was within a month of getting the system)...We so they decide to replace my hard drive, I.E., just removed the old one, no data backed up, and sent it back to HP, and put in a new one.
So now, I have a computer with a broken CD-ROM drive and a blank hard drive. They said they would have reloaded the hard drive, but they couldn't get the system to boot, even with a boot disk. Its a good thing I at least HAVE CLUE ONE ABOUT HOW COMPUTERS WORK.
When I get it home and take it apart (since it wouldn't boot, just like they said), it takes all of 10 seconds to see that 1) they placed the hard drive on the same IDE channel as the CD-ROM, 2) Both the CD-ROM and the hard drive were set as master
I call them up immediatly and completly tell off the manager of their repair center, about how incompitant the people were that worked on this system. And made a formal complaint to corporate and HP as they were a certified repair center. Note that at this time, my CD-ROM drive had still not been replaced and/or repaired. Next day I get a call from CompUSA saying that they recieved a new CD-ROM for my system, they couldn't get the same one that I origionally had, but they got the latest one from HP for my system, and that they could install it if I wanted, or I could just come by and pick it up and install it myself (without it breaking my warrentee too)...Hmmm...I really wonder what finally got their asses moving, HP calling them up or corporate...I am betting on HP personally.
Needless to say, there was no way I was letting them touch the system to install the CD-ROM drive.
I don't know about you, but my AP (and another router) has an option to specify what the external MAC address on it. Basically it is meant to be used so that you can type in the MAC address of the system that was usually on that link (cable modem or DSL). Some cable modem networks were setup in such a way that you could only access the net while using a system whos MAC address was in their database, this would supposedly keep people from putting in routers, etc., and force them to purchase extra IP addresses from the cable modem network. Well, the guys who made routers were not stupid and saw that they might lose some business, so they came up with a way to spoof the external MAC address of their routers.
I guess you havn't heard of USB 2.0? It was slow in the 1.0-1.1 specs, but it has been GREATLY improved upon with the 2.0 specs...
USB 2.0 extends the speed of the peripheral-to-PC connection from 12 Mbits/s on USB 1.1 to 480 Mbits/s -- 40 times more than current capabilities.
Brush up on your specs before posting something like this, even if you are anonymous.
After closing that project, memory usage would be 1 gig, when it is normally 80 megs. Even after running a memory clearing program, it would only come down to 800 megs, and a reboot was the only way to clear that. I personally will not use
When I started college, all I knew was that I wanted to do something with computers. As such, I went to Drexel University and started out as an Electrical and Computer Engineer. The real good thing about Drexel is the fact that they have a co-op program (other then that I don't know why else you would go there, but it is really hard to beat the co-op system they have). After going on my first co-op, I actually wound up working as a Unix Network and System Administrator, and I loved it. As I was killing myself in the engineering program (long story, but sufice it to say you get really screwed at Drexel as an engineer compaired to the other majors, quick hint, just for the calculus classes, engineers cover the same material in 3 semisters that all the other majors cover in 4 and we only get 3 credits per class while everyone else got 4, so we get 9 credits of calc that covers the same as 16 credits that every other major gets, this is pretty much the same for EVERY class you take as an engineer. I never had a singe class that was 1 hour of class time per week per credit, it usually worked out to 1.8 - 2.5 class hours per credit, hell I had a 3 credit class that had 9 hours of class a week!)
Anyway after that first co-op, I knew exactly what I wanted to do, and I didn't need to have an electrical and computer engineering degree to go do it. So I changed majors to Computer Science, since I already learned just about everything you get taught in the Information Sciences and Technology degree from actually working, I thought I might as well learn to write programs.
That 150MB a day would kill just about EVERYONE! I mean seriously. I HAVEN'T EVEN DONE ANYTHING but go to slashdot today and get my email (only 40 messages) and ALREADY I have 530 MB DOWNLOAD!!!! (with everything other then the above email and slashdot being nimdia and Code Red!).
How are they going to tell me that "Sorry you have already used up your limit for today, even though its 12:03am." And I can PROVE that I didn't use the bandwidth!!!! I have my firewall logs.
cause if you did you would have noticed the nice BIG, (sudo quote) We will not be held responsible for any damages this software causes you or your business (end sudo quote) section. If I am not mistaken, you signed a CONTRACT that removed all responsibility for any problems you have with MS's software.
See this is my WHOLE POINT! We are not using it across most of our systems. They still have MS software, even though they PAID the development costs of NSA Linux!!!!!
And the reason why they don't is beyond me. Truthfully, if the reason is to support "our" software industry, its just pathetic. They even charged MS with being a monopoly.
The real problem is that no one in the government knows any better. Why the hell do you think we get all these crap laws like DMCA in the first place? Its cause the very loud kaa-ching sound of coins in big business's pocket drown out the yells of the under-funded consumer group lobiests. And the fact that there is only maybe 10 people in congress who had a person computer before the age of 20.
Well, like I said before, I work up today and now the DNS server I was using yesturday no longer works. Again, luckily I plugged in 4 new DNS servers and now I am fine again. I am really thinking of loading up BIND 8, the only problem is that this is my laptop, and to be honest, it will use more resourses then I have to spare right now (until I get another 128 megs of RAM)... Anyway, I have still recieved NO OFFICIAL contact from Comcast at ALL. You would think they would send me a mail message or even post a message over thier Digital Cable TV service (it supports a messaging system almost like email).
Lost DNS somtime between 7pm and now, but luckily I wrote down the IP for slashdot.org and some very generous people had posted some DNS servers to use... I am using verison's DNS right now, which isn't that bad considering I use Version DSL from my apartment, so in theory I am paying for its use already.
Anyway, it should be:
nslookup localhost
nslookup localhost_IP_address
If the above 2 commands still give you the same system, then you should be ok and it is someother type of issue, but if they are not the same, then that is the cause.
Its still working here. Seems most people are having problems with DNS servers, but the one I use if run by Comcast, and it still seems to be fine. I still have my static IP as well....
Looks like we dodged the bullet, unless you think that Excite@HOME people will be pulling the plug later then their earliest time that they were allowed to do so. But that just doesn't make sense. If you are shuting down cause of operating costs, you would want to shutdown at the earliest possible time to minimize damages. Yeah I know there are extenuating circumstances here with the negotiations with AT&T, but seriously, if they were gonna do it, they would do it now, not later.