I think he should! That's a good chance in a millenium to laugh! He hasn't laughed since the day Linux screwed up his Minix sales.:D (no troll, from 'Just for fun' Tanenbaum last personal email to Linus was asking whether Linus had authorized people to sell Linux, while Linus confirmed. Tanenbaum never contact Linus thereafter, I believe he was pretty hurt by the fact that something he heavily scold of can really sell! ^_^)
And, oh, he'd have stopped laughter very soon, as he know no bad news in Linux could bring him back the glory days of Minix. You know, like Linus, I really respect Professor Tanenbaum, but it's just that Minix pale in comparison when facing Linux.
Honestly speaking commercial streaming providers are suffering from outragous fee charged for using proprietary codecs. My friend was surprise when RA charged them per *access*. Talking about *free* educational streaming-media website for charity...
Proprietary codec hurts the widespread of multi-media information exchange. WWW would not be the same if it started out as pay-per-acess. I can foresee free codec format could make a revolution, now we only need some big corps create the market drive.
Gosh, this is somewhat offtopic, but your post reminded me of a fortune 500 client I once dealt with. The MIS director (who had a remarkable resemblence to Dilbert's PHB) was bragging about how his company had purchased an ENTIRE CLASS A address block for only $15,000 from a consultant.
You are lucky that you only got one PHB. I received a fyi saying that the intranet was under 'attacked' by 'alien IPs' from the Internet. I managed to explain to PHB, PHB's PHB, PHB's PHB's sub-constractors, that 169.254 is not the prefix of internet addresses. They are supposed to be network specialists but haven't even heard of RFC1918. *shrug*
If you are setting up your NAT with Linux the packets can still get back to the Linux with real IP. Of course, that could nail those plug-n-play NAT boxes.
I wonder who invented this 'policy', it must be those typical MCSE-idiots. (No offense to the rest of MCSE, I'm just talking about MCSE-idiots - got a bunch of those here.)
Thank you for such a technical explanation. I always thought the socks are lost due to the rapid rotation creates an artifical singularty which opens a worm hole just enough for a single sock to pass. So I use to warn my children stay away from the basement while the washing machine in it is running. Thanks, the children are safe.
Hong Kong's Government has implemented PKI infrastructure for digital signature for their citizens. However, there has a fundamental fault in the system - not being thoughtful in distributing the root CA. First the root CA is not embedded in the browsers we commonly use, or have a upper root CA, which is included in browser, signed their root CA. They even allow citizen use floppy to transfer the CA issued to computer...hmm....
Anyway, the technology is mature, the things yet to be done are policy-making and legalese. Nothing is 100% secure, the CA issuer must bare the legal responsibility and liability. I wish they'd one day realize what is the legal implication of such a faulty CA system.
as you can imagine. I've heard a rumor when I was working for IB? in 1994 but since I couldn't find proof of it so take it a grain of salt.
A report saying that H? has shipped to Middle East some printers which have suspicious chips hidden. It was discovered by China's agents. Due to embargo China had problems getting many advanced equipment thus must rely on their 'partners' to resell some of them, and discovered the case.
Rumor said that these chips are not merely listening devices, but for more dangerous missile-guided purpose.
Soon after this instance Microsoft shipped software that included anti-communist messages.
China has already lost much confidence in using US' technology since.
Actually Discover has an article pointing out 20 Ways the World Could End - long before Sun expanding to get us all. Just telling me sun is a whimpy boy doesn't really relief me at all.:)
Now a team of astrophysicists at Sussex University in England has uncovered a significant flaw in the standard view of how the sun will evolve, with dramatic consequences for the fate of our planet.
I've problem trusting the research results from University major in sussing out sex.
Btw, anyone would tell me why Englishmen had to build University around sex?
Flame me if you like, but I'm more than happy to see this.
In the beginning people thought e-cards would save papers, but turn out junk mails is more worse than that.
Why torturing people with E-card when a simly greeting email could do? I've enough e-cards last year. Anybody with me?
To make it more annoying, the senders will be notified when the receiver has visited the site and opened the e-cards. It'd be awkward if I read them too late, or not reading them at all.
And it'd be too impolite to tell them not to send me fancy e-cards, argh!
Now they must license to offer these services, thus could help decreasing the usage of e-cards. Great, sound like a good news for me, I expect less e-cards next time.
(If the trend of e-cards is growing, I might have to make a procmail filter to tell the sender "I got your e-cards thanks a lot but my procmail ate it.".:)
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Absolutely a news for nerds! I mean, an integration of Punts, Francs and Deutschmarks into one Euro! That means it can solve the portability problem for 300 million people!! Now we won't be vendor-locked to use obnoxious currency...
It has recently come to my attention that our IT Director is trying to either find a way to get rid of me or transfer me into a miserable job position, all because of my age. My Boss explained to me he thinks it has to do with a bit of jealousy. Everyone I work with is over the age of 30 and the IT director is in his mid 40's.
However, I think there's story behind the story, at least I've reason to believe that the IT director might not want to get rid of you because of your age.
It might be your own attitude and the degree of confidence they've on you. You might have shown your attitude to others because you think they were not as young and as smart as you. Given all these, management do not have confidence giving you anything important. (It happened to my first job, at the time I thought I were very smart and in fact I were, but that became a blindspot for me - well, many people has that problem in their first job) Most people learnt to work with people soon after, but few would become arrogant bastards as we know them.:)
Second, your direct boss might have lied to you. Your IT Director might not want to get rid of you - all he cares is whether someone could give value to the company. The jealousy might be coming from no other but your direct boss. Who is most hurted if you got management attention and promoted? Guess what, not the IT Director, but your boss.(I've the experience in my current %$@# job. It's always the case the one you most trusted is the one who backstabbing you.)
Therefore, I feel like hearing my own story when hearing yours. Now you must bear in mind 1) if you think you are young and smart, it's unavoidable you *must* work with someone who are old and dumb. Be nice to them.:) 2) Your direct boss is always %#$@$head, you'd understand when you are somebody's boss.
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I think Professor Tanenbaum is laughing.
:D (no troll, from 'Just for fun' Tanenbaum last personal email to Linus was asking whether Linus had authorized people to sell Linux, while Linus confirmed. Tanenbaum never contact Linus thereafter, I believe he was pretty hurt by the fact that something he heavily scold of can really sell! ^_^)
I think he should! That's a good chance in a millenium to laugh! He hasn't laughed since the day Linux screwed up his Minix sales.
And, oh, he'd have stopped laughter very soon, as he know no bad news in Linux could bring him back the glory days of Minix. You know, like Linus, I really respect Professor Tanenbaum, but it's just that Minix pale in comparison when facing Linux.
He might be more familiar with Mac, or even worse, OS/2. (j/k, I'm pro-Mac and former testing team for OS/2). :)
Flamebait -- Any comment on Slashdot with which a moderator disagrees.
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Now that's flamebait to me.
Honestly speaking commercial streaming providers are suffering from outragous fee charged for using proprietary codecs. My friend was surprise when RA charged them per *access*. Talking about *free* educational streaming-media website for charity...
Proprietary codec hurts the widespread of multi-media information exchange. WWW would not be the same if it started out as pay-per-acess. I can foresee free codec format could make a revolution, now we only need some big corps create the market drive.
*Hat off to BBC*
Gosh, this is somewhat offtopic, but your post reminded me of a fortune 500 client I once dealt with. The MIS director (who had a remarkable resemblence to Dilbert's PHB) was bragging about how his company had purchased an ENTIRE CLASS A address block for only $15,000 from a consultant.
:)
You are lucky that you only got one PHB. I received a fyi saying that the intranet was under 'attacked' by 'alien IPs' from the Internet. I managed to explain to PHB, PHB's PHB, PHB's PHB's sub-constractors, that 169.254 is not the prefix of internet addresses. They are supposed to be network specialists but haven't even heard of RFC1918. *shrug*
Yes, you bet, I work for government.
If you are setting up your NAT with Linux the packets can still get back to the Linux with real IP. Of course, that could nail those plug-n-play NAT boxes.
I wonder who invented this 'policy', it must be those typical MCSE-idiots. (No offense to the rest of MCSE, I'm just talking about MCSE-idiots - got a bunch of those here.)
As it turns out, I know where socks go.
Thank you for such a technical explanation. I always thought the socks are lost due to the rapid rotation creates an artifical singularty which opens a worm hole just enough for a single sock to pass. So I use to warn my children stay away from the basement while the washing machine in it is running. Thanks, the children are safe.
decorate my wall with free XP CDs, together with AOL floor floppy tiles.
Hong Kong's Government has implemented PKI infrastructure for digital signature for their citizens. However, there has a fundamental fault in the system - not being thoughtful in distributing the root CA. First the root CA is not embedded in the browsers we commonly use, or have a upper root CA, which is included in browser, signed their root CA. They even allow citizen use floppy to transfer the CA issued to computer...hmm....
Anyway, the technology is mature, the things yet to be done are policy-making and legalese. Nothing is 100% secure, the CA issuer must bare the legal responsibility and liability. I wish they'd one day realize what is the legal implication of such a faulty CA system.
as you can imagine. I've heard a rumor when I was working for IB? in 1994 but since I couldn't find proof of it so take it a grain of salt.
A report saying that H? has shipped to Middle East some printers which have suspicious chips hidden. It was discovered by China's agents. Due to embargo China had problems getting many advanced equipment thus must rely on their 'partners' to resell some of them, and discovered the case.
Rumor said that these chips are not merely listening devices, but for more dangerous missile-guided purpose.
Soon after this instance Microsoft shipped software that included anti-communist messages.
China has already lost much confidence in using US' technology since.
A CIA spokesman, Bill Harlow, declined to comment on the report, saying, "We never comment on allegations like these, as a matter of policy."
...did you by chance work for Microsoft before?
I notice:
:)
1) His last company looks like a law firm
2) He said he's from a legal family(I guess he meant his family is stuffed with lawyers - mighty awkward at family gathering *argh*)
So....he works for his family before seeking a real job. "Oh he's a good boy at family...I mean company"
P.P.S wanna fuck me?
Shouldn't it be 'P.S.S.' instead? Just asking.
Time to celebrate that opensource has finally conquered x86. Where are the free beers we always talk about?
We already have lzip to compress the files down to 0% of their original size. ZeoSync doesn't catch up with latest technologies on /. it seems.
Actually Discover has an article pointing out 20 Ways the World Could End - long before Sun expanding to get us all. Just telling me sun is a whimpy boy doesn't really relief me at all. :)
:)
(btw, I think 17 is about the present world.
Now a team of astrophysicists at Sussex University in England has uncovered a significant flaw in the standard view of how the sun will evolve, with dramatic consequences for the fate of our planet.
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I've problem trusting the research results from University major in sussing out sex
Btw, anyone would tell me why Englishmen had to build University around sex?
(yes, it's a joke, take it easy)
Flame me if you like, but I'm more than happy to see this.
:)
In the beginning people thought e-cards would save papers, but turn out junk mails is more worse than that.
Why torturing people with E-card when a simly greeting email could do? I've enough e-cards last year. Anybody with me?
To make it more annoying, the senders will be notified when the receiver has visited the site and opened the e-cards. It'd be awkward if I read them too late, or not reading them at all.
And it'd be too impolite to tell them not to send me fancy e-cards, argh!
Now they must license to offer these services, thus could help decreasing the usage of e-cards. Great, sound like a good news for me, I expect less e-cards next time.
(If the trend of e-cards is growing, I might have to make a procmail filter to tell the sender "I got your e-cards thanks a lot but my procmail ate it.".
Make sure you check out the latest additions to the Web sites: http://infoweb/microsoftup and http://infoweb/darknesscome after http://infoweb/sundown
Absolutely a news for nerds! I mean, an integration of Punts, Francs and Deutschmarks into one Euro! That means it can solve the portability problem for 300 million people!! Now we won't be vendor-locked to use obnoxious currency...
Oh wait...
I feel like killing with snake-vision. :D
The link above seems to be slashdotted, try this one.
April Fool's joke can become reality. Remember not to make bad jokes next April. :)
It has recently come to my attention that our IT Director is trying to either find a way to get rid of me or transfer me into a miserable job position, all because of my age. My Boss explained to me he thinks it has to do with a bit of jealousy. Everyone I work with is over the age of 30 and the IT director is in his mid 40's.
:)
:) 2) Your direct boss is always %#$@$head, you'd understand when you are somebody's boss.
However, I think there's story behind the story, at least I've reason to believe that the IT director might not want to get rid of you because of your age.
It might be your own attitude and the degree of confidence they've on you. You might have shown your attitude to others because you think they were not as young and as smart as you. Given all these, management do not have confidence giving you anything important. (It happened to my first job, at the time I thought I were very smart and in fact I were, but that became a blindspot for me - well, many people has that problem in their first job) Most people learnt to work with people soon after, but few would become arrogant bastards as we know them.
Second, your direct boss might have lied to you. Your IT Director might not want to get rid of you - all he cares is whether someone could give value to the company. The jealousy might be coming from no other but your direct boss. Who is most hurted if you got management attention and promoted? Guess what, not the IT Director, but your boss.(I've the experience in my current %$@# job. It's always the case the one you most trusted is the one who backstabbing you.)
Therefore, I feel like hearing my own story when hearing yours. Now you must bear in mind 1) if you think you are young and smart, it's unavoidable you *must* work with someone who are old and dumb. Be nice to them.
Now what am I going to do with the extra computational power that I created?
Running Super-SETI at home, claiming to be the greatest contributor when they really find ET?
Running Super-Quake with all the transparant cheat-code on without a slight jitter?
Rendering MSN frontpage in less than a second, with Mozilla?
Any better idea?