It wasn't until I asked Orange to release my business mobile numbers so I could sign up with a competitor that their retention dept. took the trouble to route around Orange's poor business procedures and save 5000 UKP of business per year by giving me what their website offerred. (I still had to wait 3 weeks before they could add new handsets to the contract because tyey could only convert me from a competitor-compatable tarriff (i.e. I snatched us from the brink of a competitor when we signed up, and so we went with the matched tarriff) at the next billing date and they could not change billing dates. Idiots.
There is a difference between saying "I'll leave" and actually trying to close an account.
I can knock up an rpm.spec file in about 10 minutes. I still can't make.deb's without resorting to checkinstall.
I'm low-priority working on a tool to build deb's out of rpm.spec files; most of all I want to avoid having to have one large meta-patch, and I want to avoid some private deb packagers from tweaking the source manually during build and then not have THE source they built from available.
You can cut your throat with Occams razor if you are not careful.
The first lesson is only to wield it when neccessary. It is always preferable to gather more data, Occams razor is to cut out explanations not observations.
I've had similar things happen on my Dell Precision M70; when suspend fails, the screen goes in a grid-mode, like looking through stockings, and the text consoles display a blob of colour that cyurcles through the rainbow to white and I quikcly switch back at that point as it looks like the display is not being driven properly and I'm afraid the lcd is not properly biased at that point.
Also, on Ubuntu dapper, I had to turn off "cute boot mode" a while back, or text consoles were always straight black, I could login, but no text.
BBC Scientists made blind mice into the Borg who armed themselves with linux powered laser-headed sharks and took over the BBC and released this pleasant sounding statement.
In the UK the banks closed branches "cos there's cash machines and its cheaper". Then they decided to charge a quid a time to use the cash machine (now there's few branches left). Idiots.
it didn't last long before all the banks were boasting they THEY didn't charge for ATM use.
Co-op bank NEVER charged for ATM use and also allowed post offices to be used as branches. -Which also makes it funnier about pensioners complaining about pensions being paid into bank accounts and not collectable from the post office, and even stranger that the Co-op bank didn't say "hey guys, get your pension paid into a co-op account and then come and get it out the post office".
It's true, and Blair who is anxious to do SOMETHING important before he dies has followed along with everything.
He's even said straight that it is better to be at the head of europe even though we loose the right to self determination.
He's doctored his own intelligence reports and then pretended it was the fault of the intelligence dept.; as if he, a prime minister, didn't know how to evaluate intelligence. (And its not pick the first bit that supports what you knew instinctively and use that to persude everyone else)
err... what makes you think it will be your software that is doing the decrypting so that it can delete data on the sly?
More likely its a copy of your disk, and their software.
Oh the blessings of open standards encryption.
Have 2 keys for sure, but if anything starts chugging away writing to the disk after that it sort of gives the game away and out comes another copy of your disk and an airline ticket to Syria via Scotland. No thanks!
Let your second key merely deliver some slightly dodgy data, even better, mere commercial secrets and company passwords.
The census is enumeration. The national health number is enumeration. My passport is enumeration.
What problem is it that the id card is supposed to solve?
Because for every (read many) person there is a card, doesn't mean that when you find a person you find their identity. There will be chips implanted at birth before ID cards really work.
Everything-is-a-file is all very well until you want real-time-ish multimedia mixing. Everything-is-a-file is all very well until most of "everything" is done via ioctl's rather than file IO.
I'm happy enough to have software mixing (at last), and to be honest, playing sound asyncrhonously is best NOT done with writing some wav fragments to a file, using syswrite and select to avoid blocking, and then hoping the select loop re-enters soon enough to syswrite the next block in time. Much nicer to have an api to queue a wav fragment, and maybe with callbacks to get some more.
And so... what if a government agency decided that you needed psychiatric care? It's so important, in fact the care of citizens health is more important that the temporary protection from terrorists - your government cares, you see!
# Paperback: 277 pages # Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill Osborne Media; 1st McGraw-Hill ed edition (June 1, 1983) # Language: English # ISBN: 0070369836 # Note: Gift-wrapping is not available for this item.
It covers computers in terms of telegrams and such technology easy to understand.
It wont help people get a real understanding of what modern computers are doing; but it will help them understand the sorts of things they are doing (and I don't mean "binary addition") but like: Sherlock Holmes had the post office install a telegraph machine in his rooms, which he wired up to a train set (on which were stuck cut-outs of himself) so that he could control the casting of his shadows on the window without being inside. The parallel is, of course, a modem.
The book presents a series of sherlock holmes mysteries and then discusses the technology he uses and what the computer equivalent is, thus the reader is capable of saying "ah, it's like a..."
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good comment.
Most people forget the "actually walk away part"
It wasn't until I asked Orange to release my business mobile numbers so I could sign up with a competitor that their retention dept. took the trouble to route around Orange's poor business procedures and save 5000 UKP of business per year by giving me what their website offerred. (I still had to wait 3 weeks before they could add new handsets to the contract because tyey could only convert me from a competitor-compatable tarriff (i.e. I snatched us from the brink of a competitor when we signed up, and so we went with the matched tarriff) at the next billing date and they could not change billing dates. Idiots.
There is a difference between saying "I'll leave" and actually trying to close an account.
Sam
Please, could you publish your crafty UA string?
I can knock up an rpm .spec file in about 10 minutes. .deb's without resorting to checkinstall.
.spec files; most of all I want to avoid having to have one large meta-patch, and I want to avoid some private deb packagers from tweaking the source manually during build and then not have THE source they built from available.
I still can't make
I'm low-priority working on a tool to build deb's out of rpm
Sam
If the packages are signed and checked you will at least KNOW when cracked mirrors become a problem!
Sam
You can cut your throat with Occams razor if you are not careful.
The first lesson is only to wield it when neccessary. It is always preferable to gather more data, Occams razor is to cut out explanations not observations.
I've had similar things happen on my Dell Precision M70; when suspend fails, the screen goes in a grid-mode, like looking through stockings, and the text consoles display a blob of colour that cyurcles through the rainbow to white and I quikcly switch back at that point as it looks like the display is not being driven properly and I'm afraid the lcd is not properly biased at that point.
Also, on Ubuntu dapper, I had to turn off "cute boot mode" a while back, or text consoles were always straight black, I could login, but no text.
Sam
Forth isn't dead, and you can get the beginner forth books online.
Try comp.lang.forth and see whats kicking.
Look for Forth Webring websites and get all the online books you need.
Forth will never die just because its too useful and its too easy to develop reliable systems with it.
Sam
http://ficl.sourceforge.net/
If you liked neon you might like ficl; it has the same features you mentioned with choice of early and late binding.
Many forth object systems do.
I did a port of Ficl to MS Smartphone 2002/2003 but couldn't get permission to release it.
(By port I mean filling in some missing libc functions)
Sam
Get a mosquito sensor, to detect when it is turned on, use it to power a 12Khz sounder focussed at his windows.
When he turns of the mosquito noise, the noise he can hear will go off.
When he turns it on again, he will hear it.
He will think it has gone wrong; and you know he feels the same pain you do.
Sam
Don't forget something can be mission critical in a non-critical mission.
BBC Scientists made blind mice into the Borg who armed themselves with linux powered laser-headed sharks and took over the BBC and released this pleasant sounding statement.
We're doomed! Borg mice, who'd'a'thought it!
Sam
Don't tell the *AA you are a muslim.
There'll be killing in Islamabad and all over the world if anyone the *AA charges turns out to be muslim.
"I was downloading a picture of Mohammed and the *AA claimed it was a naked picture of Brinty Speres"
It will start WW3, do oyu want that on your conscience?
In the UK the banks closed branches "cos there's cash machines and its cheaper".
Then they decided to charge a quid a time to use the cash machine (now there's few branches left).
Idiots.
it didn't last long before all the banks were boasting they THEY didn't charge for ATM use.
Co-op bank NEVER charged for ATM use and also allowed post offices to be used as branches.
-Which also makes it funnier about pensioners complaining about pensions being paid into bank accounts and not collectable from the post office, and even stranger that the Co-op bank didn't say "hey guys, get your pension paid into a co-op account and then come and get it out the post office".
Weird.
Sam
Is it just me, or is slashdot lagging digg.com by 3 or 4 days now?
Sam
It's true, and Blair who is anxious to do SOMETHING important before he dies has followed along with everything.
He's even said straight that it is better to be at the head of europe even though we loose the right to self determination.
He's doctored his own intelligence reports and then pretended it was the fault of the intelligence dept.; as if he, a prime minister, didn't know how to evaluate intelligence. (And its not pick the first bit that supports what you knew instinctively and use that to persude everyone else)
Sam
Perhaps ATI marketing don't really understand it even though ATI techies and customers do.
That ATI are now trying to hide things from their google-cache-aware techie customers confirms this.
Sam
ar, good point!
god bless those little tpm modules after all!
Sam
So your fabulous security is as weak as your alarm system pin.
Is that "truested alarm system" pin?
The sort of folk who want your data that badly are likely to be able to handle your alarm.
What sort of data do you have?
Sam
err... what makes you think it will be your software that is doing the decrypting so that it can delete data on the sly?
More likely its a copy of your disk, and their software.
Oh the blessings of open standards encryption.
Have 2 keys for sure, but if anything starts chugging away writing to the disk after that it sort of gives the game away and out comes another copy of your disk and an airline ticket to Syria via Scotland. No thanks!
Let your second key merely deliver some slightly dodgy data, even better, mere commercial secrets and company passwords.
Sam
The census is enumeration.
The national health number is enumeration.
My passport is enumeration.
What problem is it that the id card is supposed to solve?
Because for every (read many) person there is a card, doesn't mean that when you find a person you find their identity.
There will be chips implanted at birth before ID cards really work.
Sam
I don't use skype on principle; closed source proprietary protocols can go to hell.
I'm happy to interact with systems based on unencumbered open protocols and open source implementations.
This means I like Free World Dialup with the Asterisk gateway, and I like asterisk and its inter-asterisk protocols. Nice.
But skype can go to hell.
Sam
Everything-is-a-file is all very well until you want real-time-ish multimedia mixing.
Everything-is-a-file is all very well until most of "everything" is done via ioctl's rather than file IO.
I'm happy enough to have software mixing (at last), and to be honest, playing sound asyncrhonously is best NOT done with writing some wav fragments to a file, using syswrite and select to avoid blocking, and then hoping the select loop re-enters soon enough to syswrite the next block in time. Much nicer to have an api to queue a wav fragment, and maybe with callbacks to get some more.
Sam
And so... what if a government agency decided that you needed psychiatric care? It's so important, in fact the care of citizens health is more important that the temporary protection from terrorists - your government cares, you see!
Sam
if a "government agency" suggested you stay in your home for a few weeks, would you feel any better that your house arrest was merely a suggestion?
Would you step outside? Would be be afraid.
Sam
A glacier?
Sam
From Baker Street to Binary: An Introduction to Computers and Computer Programming (Paperback)
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# Paperback: 277 pages
# Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill Osborne Media; 1st McGraw-Hill ed edition (June 1, 1983)
# Language: English
# ISBN: 0070369836
# Note: Gift-wrapping is not available for this item.
It covers computers in terms of telegrams and such technology easy to understand.
It wont help people get a real understanding of what modern computers are doing; but it will help them understand the sorts of things they are doing (and I don't mean "binary addition") but like: Sherlock Holmes had the post office install a telegraph machine in his rooms, which he wired up to a train set (on which were stuck cut-outs of himself) so that he could control the casting of his shadows on the window without being inside. The parallel is, of course, a modem.
The book presents a series of sherlock holmes mysteries and then discusses the technology he uses and what the computer equivalent is, thus the reader is capable of saying "ah, it's like a
Sam