Perhaps someone should start a volunteer-oriented grassroots program to mirror all 'useful' websites (use your own definition of useful, since it would be you volunteering to do it). Work with the site owners and give over part of your hard drive to backup the entire site on occasion. With the cooperation of the site owners, you could actually FTP the underlying structure of the site and not have to rely on site rippers that might give incomplete copies. All you folk on highspeed connections and fat hard drives ought to be able to accomodate hundreds of sites overall, even if they were huge.
What does everyone think of that idea? It would sure preserve that information from arbitrary ownership changes and deletion.
Man, I wish I'd seen that last night. I think I wore out about a dozen woodcutters, and was reduced to stealing wood from adjacent villages before I took them over. Thanks for a seriously useful RTFM. My only excuse is I only just started playing yesterday, so I was kinda stuck on 'Gesture this way to retrieve your creature' kinda stuff.
I may not be following what you're saying, but if you are actually comparing 'Atlas Shrugged' (or anything Ayn Rand ever wrote) to anything remotely resembling Communism, then you haven't read anything Ayn Rand ever wrote. She was, to put it lightly, one of the most anti-Communist writers ever, to the point that it colored everything she did, Objectivist-wise or other-wise.
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I'm far from being a Mac addict, but I can see the benefits in putting a minimal amount of money into something that will run the newest and bestest Mac OS. I'm a support technician slash systems administrator, so if nothing else it keeps my knowledge well-rounded to try out alternative operating systems.
I can sympathize with those who say "I've already got an office full of computers...why do I need another?", but it really isn't all that expensive to build a Mac that will run OS X. I'm doing it this way:
1.) Already bought a Powermac 8500 midtower from Ebay with 80MB of RAM and a 10 gig hard drive: Cost = $100 shipped
2.) Going to buy a G3 333 or 400 upgrade card: Estimated cost = $220 based on completed Ebay sales.
3.) Going to buy 128MB of RAM: Estimated cost = $60-$70 for SDRAM more or less.
4.) OS X = $99 +-, or $129 MSRP at most.
Total Cost: $450.
The only caveat is that I've already got a Mac monitor, but IIUC I can use a standard PC monitor with that Powermac anyway, so my KVM switch will just have to clear a spot. I figure that will be a reasonable price to pay to have a machine that will keep me up to date. Your mileage may vary.
BTW, for those who say "I've already got too many machines", I've got the following in my office:
1.) Sparc 2 POS running SunOS 4 something or other.
2.) Sparc 2 POS running RH 6.2 as webserver.
3.) Compaq Pentium 200 running Win98.
4.) Compaq Pentium 233 running NT Workstation/Server as dual-boot.
5.) Compaq Pentium 200 running Openstep 4.2.
6.) Compaq POS running Win 3.1 (I know, useless).
7.) Homebuilt Athlon 1Ghz multi-booting Win2k Pro and RH 7.1 and (currently) WinXP beta 2.
8.) Powermac 7200 running OS 8.1.
9, 10.) (2) Next slabs, both running NextStep 3.3.
11, 12.) (2) IBM Thinkpads, running Win95 and 98.
Oh man...I'm not litigious by nature, but if that happened to me ONCE I'd own the place. Practice your religion all you want, but not on me or my time.
It's funny, but I was sitting on the john less than an hour ago and had exactly this same thought! Actually, I was thinking that anyone with a computer could sample in a random ten-second piece of music, speed it up 3x, then loop it endlessly.
I myself worked as a tech support specialist at AOL for about a year, and you are the kind of person that their training program would weed out. I'm not sure where you get off thinking you are smart enough to second-guess a multi-billion dollar corporation with thousands of other employees exactly like you. They do the things they do for a reason, and it isn't because they are stupid or unfeeling. I'm not sure where you missed the point that the person that the tech was speaking to might have been LYING. It isn't up to you to make that determination.
$672? I dunno, I just built a gigahertz Athlon (T-Bird)with an Asus A7V board, 256MB of RAM, a 32MB TNT2 video card, and a 20gig Maxtor hard drive for a little less than that. Of course, you'd have to add a monitor, but those are about $150 for a 17".
Now I guess it could be debated whether a gigahertz T-Bird is a 'speedy PC', but it's sure not pokey.
It appears to me that the issue at hand was that the kid insulted the Assistant Principal on his own time and with his own money, and the AP used his power as an administrator of the school to suspend the kid. I think the real situation was that the AP didn't like what the kid had to say in an independent forum, and subsequently kicked him out of school.
I'm usually a stickler for details, and I'd like to see where in the local school system's student handbook that you can't build parody websites about school admins. Show me that and I'll change my tune.
Just to give you an idea about that T1, I work for a ISP, and we have a single T1 connected to 150 modems, with a 10-1 modem/user ratio. That is 1500+- users on one 1.544Mbps line. That's a LOT of sharing.
I can tell you from firsthand experience that you'd better watch out when a big company is inexplicably generous with their own money.
I worked for MindSpring in Atlanta back in 1996-97. I quit, and I thought they cancelled my account. About two months later, I for some reason dialed in, and my user/pass worked. I proceeded on to use that account for another six or eight months and never saw a bill. Imagine my surprise when I got a letter out of the blue from a collections agency for over $160 in access charges! Apparently they decided not to be so generous.
Word to the wise: When a company doesn't collect for their service, generosity is never the reason.
Mark my words...if anybody besides geeks read this site, by next week you'd see somebody who'd actually done this...then picked up on this article and referred to it in the newspapers.
No, I don't have a link, but I saw an article in Discover magazine recently that showed that the 'Dolly effect' seems to not be universal. Someone actually cloned mice with telomeres longer than the parent, which would imply they'll actually live longer. I'm sure someone can Google up a link.
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Perhaps someone should start a volunteer-oriented grassroots program to mirror all 'useful' websites (use your own definition of useful, since it would be you volunteering to do it). Work with the site owners and give over part of your hard drive to backup the entire site on occasion. With the cooperation of the site owners, you could actually FTP the underlying structure of the site and not have to rely on site rippers that might give incomplete copies. All you folk on highspeed connections and fat hard drives ought to be able to accomodate hundreds of sites overall, even if they were huge.
What does everyone think of that idea? It would sure preserve that information from arbitrary ownership changes and deletion.
"ALL YOUR PROGRAM ARE BELONG TO US"
There, someone said it.
Glad to see someone else is busy forging up an online identity for ole Heywood.
Man, I wish I'd seen that last night. I think I wore out about a dozen woodcutters, and was reduced to stealing wood from adjacent villages before I took them over. Thanks for a seriously useful RTFM. My only excuse is I only just started playing yesterday, so I was kinda stuck on 'Gesture this way to retrieve your creature' kinda stuff.
I may not be following what you're saying, but if you are actually comparing 'Atlas Shrugged' (or anything Ayn Rand ever wrote) to anything remotely resembling Communism, then you haven't read anything Ayn Rand ever wrote. She was, to put it lightly, one of the most anti-Communist writers ever, to the point that it colored everything she did, Objectivist-wise or other-wise.
I'm far from being a Mac addict, but I can see the benefits in putting a minimal amount of money into something that will run the newest and bestest Mac OS. I'm a support technician slash systems administrator, so if nothing else it keeps my knowledge well-rounded to try out alternative operating systems.
I can sympathize with those who say "I've already got an office full of computers...why do I need another?", but it really isn't all that expensive to build a Mac that will run OS X. I'm doing it this way:
1.) Already bought a Powermac 8500 midtower from Ebay with 80MB of RAM and a 10 gig hard drive: Cost = $100 shipped
2.) Going to buy a G3 333 or 400 upgrade card: Estimated cost = $220 based on completed Ebay sales.
3.) Going to buy 128MB of RAM: Estimated cost = $60-$70 for SDRAM more or less.
4.) OS X = $99 +-, or $129 MSRP at most.
Total Cost: $450.
The only caveat is that I've already got a Mac monitor, but IIUC I can use a standard PC monitor with that Powermac anyway, so my KVM switch will just have to clear a spot. I figure that will be a reasonable price to pay to have a machine that will keep me up to date. Your mileage may vary.
BTW, for those who say "I've already got too many machines", I've got the following in my office:
1.) Sparc 2 POS running SunOS 4 something or other.
2.) Sparc 2 POS running RH 6.2 as webserver.
3.) Compaq Pentium 200 running Win98.
4.) Compaq Pentium 233 running NT Workstation/Server as dual-boot.
5.) Compaq Pentium 200 running Openstep 4.2.
6.) Compaq POS running Win 3.1 (I know, useless).
7.) Homebuilt Athlon 1Ghz multi-booting Win2k Pro and RH 7.1 and (currently) WinXP beta 2.
8.) Powermac 7200 running OS 8.1.
9, 10.) (2) Next slabs, both running NextStep 3.3.
11, 12.) (2) IBM Thinkpads, running Win95 and 98.
Don't tell me I don't need another computer...lol
"95% of people polled believe their IQ is above average."
Actually, according to the following story:
http://www.apa.org/journals/psp/psp7761121.html
the smarter you are, the more likely you are to think yourself below average.
Oh man...I'm not litigious by nature, but if that happened to me ONCE I'd own the place. Practice your religion all you want, but not on me or my time.
I've used the SPAN STYLE="position: absolute" type tag for a long time, and it works either in IE or in Netscrape.
It's funny, but I was sitting on the john less than an hour ago and had exactly this same thought! Actually, I was thinking that anyone with a computer could sample in a random ten-second piece of music, speed it up 3x, then loop it endlessly.
You didn't see BWP2? Dang, it was worthwhile just to see the Wiccan chick's ass a few times.
I myself worked as a tech support specialist at AOL for about a year, and you are the kind of person that their training program would weed out. I'm not sure where you get off thinking you are smart enough to second-guess a multi-billion dollar corporation with thousands of other employees exactly like you. They do the things they do for a reason, and it isn't because they are stupid or unfeeling. I'm not sure where you missed the point that the person that the tech was speaking to might have been LYING. It isn't up to you to make that determination.
Vitamin C is also a half decent pop singer. Kinda cute too.
I agree. Britney Spears IS art...she doesn't have to sing.
$672? I dunno, I just built a gigahertz Athlon (T-Bird)with an Asus A7V board, 256MB of RAM, a 32MB TNT2 video card, and a 20gig Maxtor hard drive for a little less than that. Of course, you'd have to add a monitor, but those are about $150 for a 17".
Now I guess it could be debated whether a gigahertz T-Bird is a 'speedy PC', but it's sure not pokey.
It appears to me that the issue at hand was that the kid insulted the Assistant Principal on his own time and with his own money, and the AP used his power as an administrator of the school to suspend the kid. I think the real situation was that the AP didn't like what the kid had to say in an independent forum, and subsequently kicked him out of school.
I'm usually a stickler for details, and I'd like to see where in the local school system's student handbook that you can't build parody websites about school admins. Show me that and I'll change my tune.
"J(K) Why is Unix so violent? Pound, Bang, Slash...."
How about Perl? Chop, Chomp, Kill, Die.
http://patriot.net/~bmcgin/kjvpage.html
Go there (really) and download the zipped file with the ASCII version of the King James Bible. I just did this, and I got the following results:
Zipped file - 1,426,156 bytes
Unzipped document - 4,834,376
Winzip itself reports a 71% compression ratio.
Just to give you an idea about that T1, I work for a ISP, and we have a single T1 connected to 150 modems, with a 10-1 modem/user ratio. That is 1500+- users on one 1.544Mbps line. That's a LOT of sharing.
I can tell you from firsthand experience that you'd better watch out when a big company is inexplicably generous with their own money.
I worked for MindSpring in Atlanta back in 1996-97. I quit, and I thought they cancelled my account. About two months later, I for some reason dialed in, and my user/pass worked. I proceeded on to use that account for another six or eight months and never saw a bill. Imagine my surprise when I got a letter out of the blue from a collections agency for over $160 in access charges! Apparently they decided not to be so generous.
Word to the wise: When a company doesn't collect for their service, generosity is never the reason.
"educate the public"
About computers, you mean? THAT'S your first hurdle...once you jump it, let everyone else know.
Mark my words...if anybody besides geeks read this site, by next week you'd see somebody who'd actually done this...then picked up on this article and referred to it in the newspapers.
Nah.
It's more like "They get away with what you pay for".
No, I don't have a link, but I saw an article in Discover magazine recently that showed that the 'Dolly effect' seems to not be universal. Someone actually cloned mice with telomeres longer than the parent, which would imply they'll actually live longer. I'm sure someone can Google up a link.
That's a damn good idea.
Better patent that business model before someone else does.