The average ham who is active on HF hears about one a year.
I'm an average ham. I'm active on HF. I've been on the air for almost 20 years. I've never heard one. I've read about them, but I've never heard one.
I don't care so much if a program is popular. I'm more interested in whether or not a program is actually USEFUL to me.:-) Some of the open source stuff I love is quite unpopular, but I don't care because it does what I want in the way I want it done.
Which is great until the project goes tits up, and is removed from ports trees, security updates and such, and then you have to go looking again. It would be nice to find a winner the first time out.
Has the OP ever used OS/2? If they think Vista will fail, they're wrong--Microsoft is behind it.
If they think OS/2 failed because it was bloated/didn't work/was full of holes, they're wrong. OS/2 kicked Win95's ass, in many, many ways. It was stable, truly 32 bit, could run native MSDOS and Win apps, had built-in networking support, better memory management, had preemptive multitasking, etc. etc.
It was nice to use and got out of your way so you could do work. IBM's colossal marketing screw ups were what killed OS/2.
Don't compare Windows Vista to OS/2 unless you mean to say that it really is several steps ahead of XP.
That's *why* whenever I possibly can I don't use Word. OpenOffice is so much more reliable, there's just no comparison, and it has been for the last three or so years. Especially when documents get big. Lately I'm leaning toward using LyX/LaTeX, which I think is an even better option for large, highly structured documents that need to be consistent and nice-looking.
LyX is good for large, structured documents. The learning curve is a little steep, but IMO it's worth it. With LyX you have to get in the habit of writing everything first, and doing formatting after all the writing is done [at least that's how I did it]. Did both of my wife's theses on it [Masters and PhD]. Worked great, and can produce a.pdf when done.
I would hope everyone keeps teaching at least one Morse code: SOS. It's a rarely recognizable international signal and symbol not tied (at least not anymore) to a specific language or culture.
It's not tied to a specific language, per se. SOS is not an abbreviation or initialization of any group of words or phrase. It's just SOS.
It's a real PITA to install, but once you're there I think you'll be happy. Whether to install Linux or BSD depends upon what you're going to do with the machine.
I've got a couple of Macs running NetBSD, and they are quite responsive.
Pft, when I started downloading from the intarweb from home in 1991, I would have to dial in to my favourite UNIX BBS and submit a download request as a batch process which would be completed the next time that BBS connected to the net. A few days later I might have my little text file, if I was lucky. Getting swimsuit babes.gif files in 256 glorious colours and FidoNET email downloaded in.QWK packages was great. Those were the days. I'd dial-in, download my subscribed mail, hang up, read it, reply to it, then dial-up again to upload my replies.
Ach, when I was a wee lad, I had to shovel coal into the back o' the PDP-9 1/2 to start the day. Aye, then hit the shorting bar on the Vibroplex to see if the next station were yet awake. A tobacco tin on the sounder made for a mighty report!
Uphill both ways, in knee-deep snow yet! Ach, ye young pups donna know what ye are goin' on about. . .
In a world with Linux, Solaris, OS X (a BSD, sorta), a zillion types of Windows, QNX, etc... why do we need so many BSDs? I mean, if someone wants to make their own version of an OSS project, that's up to them, but if you want to be relevant, you have to offer something new and relevant. If I'm going to run BSD on a server, I'm going to run something security oriented like OpenBSD so I can spend more time developing my applications.
Because you've got that Mac G4 with OS9 on it sitting around at work gathering dust, and it would make a great database server. FreeBSD's port ain't ready for Prime Time, and who wants the hassle of Linux? NetBSD is the perfect choice. This machine has been serving up BAMP flawlessly for over 120 days straight. . .
In addition, while squirrelmail may address the mail issue, it may not address the groupware functionality his users may require (calendaring, ldap address editing, tasks, group appointments). I've had offices as small as 5 people insist on having Exchange based on their "need" for groupware.
Golly, if they need groupware that badly, build moregroupware. It works for us, and we even use it as project management software.
The supposed "showdown" on Jay Leno was a highly unscientific and inaccurate test which pitted the world's fasted morse coder using very expensive morse equipment against a teenager using a cheap cell phone with a membrane keypad.
Retard. That '. ..world's fastest morse coder. ..' was nothing of the kind. He was a typical Ham Radio contest enthusiast. Also, no one but some goofball on./ would call them 'morse coders'.
They're radio amateurs, cw ops, ham radio guys, even brass pounders, but not 'morse coders.'
Besides, Morse isn't a code, it's a cipher.
Now, crawl back in your hole, curl up in the fetal position, rock back and forth, and meditate on the difference between entertainment and real science while sucking your thumb.
depending upon your data situation, how about RAID 1+0 or RAID 0+1 rather than RAID 5? RAID 5 will bite you in the ass, sooner or later.
I've got the teeth marks to prove it.
My favorite [read: most annoying] bad science:
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"The fact that Al Quaeda hasn't attacked us again just proves that we are winning the war on terror, and that we are doing the right things to prevent it."
Oh, I'm sorry, that's not bad science, that's just really bad logic. . .
after all, H2 is the lightest gas around. It'll dissipate immediately at a fueling station or wherever. Gasoline vapors, on the other hand, are heavier than air and tend to pool. That seems much more dangerous to me.
Find me three pieces that would be playable by less than a college level performer that use a 5/4 time signature. Much more common would be 2/4 which is often used in music a child of that age might sing or perform. (After just helping my 7 year old prepare for a recital with a piece in a 2/4 time signature,...)
One comes to mind: Pentameter March. Played it in 7th grade band.
"Money" by Pink Floyd--my son can play that on the Bass, and he is 16. [Sorry, that's 7/4 time]
"My Way" by Soundgarden is in 5/4. He hasn't worked on that one yet.
Ok, he isn't 7, but odd meter music isn't all that rare. Take the theme from Mission Impossible. . .
...are a thriving breed, amongst I count myself member. I know many an advanced degree student who put all sorts of assignments off. They expect it, honestly. This year the computer engineering senior projects final project specification requirements (40 pages) were handed out on monday and due that friday.
As computers began to overtake typewriters both at college level and at work, my stated maxim was [and still is]: the most significant contribution that computers have made to our lives is the ability to procrastinate even longer . . .
That's right--make everyone take a license test before they can get on the Internet! Just like Ham Radio!
The Novice license will allow gopher access only to sunsite.unc.edu, and you can use the 'ping' command with restrictions.
The General License will allow text-based email, sftp, ntpdate and limited usenet access [again, text based].
The Extra License will allow www access [text based], unlimited usenet newsgroup access, ssh and limited streaming audio.
Only the Governmental Microsoft Expert License will allow GUI's, full use of IE and streaming anything you damned well please. Oh, and if you are a GMEL licensee, you *must* run IIS on all your machines, and they all must be directly connected to the Internet.
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Wouldn't it be assumed all modern light bulbs are 'solid-state' and will continue to be?
Hollow state [think vacuum tube] actually. Solid state is like an LED.
Mod this down--this isn't insightul, it's just a question.
Don't cross the streams. It would be bad.
Like Biblical Proportions bad?
The average ham who is active on HF hears about one a year. I'm an average ham. I'm active on HF. I've been on the air for almost 20 years. I've never heard one. I've read about them, but I've never heard one.
Sounds a little like Michael Howard might be "baked in". . .
I don't care so much if a program is popular. I'm more interested in whether or not a program is actually USEFUL to me. :-) Some of the open source stuff I love is quite unpopular, but I don't care because it does what I want in the way I want it done.
Which is great until the project goes tits up, and is removed from ports trees, security updates and such, and then you have to go looking again. It would be nice to find a winner the first time out.
Weaklings! I give my users a bucket of sand, and if they haven't build a 486 laptop from it by the end of the day, we kill them and eat their livers.
.with a nice Chianti.
. .
Has the OP ever used OS/2? If they think Vista will fail, they're wrong--Microsoft is behind it.
If they think OS/2 failed because it was bloated/didn't work/was full of holes, they're wrong. OS/2 kicked Win95's ass, in many, many ways. It was stable, truly 32 bit, could run native MSDOS and Win apps, had built-in networking support, better memory management, had preemptive multitasking, etc. etc.
It was nice to use and got out of your way so you could do work. IBM's colossal marketing screw ups were what killed OS/2.
Don't compare Windows Vista to OS/2 unless you mean to say that it really is several steps ahead of XP.
That's *why* whenever I possibly can I don't use Word. OpenOffice is so much more reliable, there's just no comparison, and it has been for the last three or so years. Especially when documents get big. Lately I'm leaning toward using LyX/LaTeX, which I think is an even better option for large, highly structured documents that need to be consistent and nice-looking.
.pdf when done.
LyX is good for large, structured documents. The learning curve is a little steep, but IMO it's worth it. With LyX you have to get in the habit of writing everything first, and doing formatting after all the writing is done [at least that's how I did it]. Did both of my wife's theses on it [Masters and PhD]. Worked great, and can produce a
I would hope everyone keeps teaching at least one Morse code: SOS. It's a rarely recognizable international signal and symbol not tied (at least not anymore) to a specific language or culture.
It's not tied to a specific language, per se. SOS is not an abbreviation or initialization of any group of words or phrase. It's just SOS.
It's a real PITA to install, but once you're there I think you'll be happy. Whether to install Linux or BSD depends upon what you're going to do with the machine.
I've got a couple of Macs running NetBSD, and they are quite responsive.
Pft, when I started downloading from the intarweb from home in 1991, I would have to dial in to my favourite UNIX BBS and submit a download request as a batch process which would be completed the next time that BBS connected to the net. A few days later I might have my little text file, if I was lucky. Getting swimsuit babes .gif files in 256 glorious colours and FidoNET email downloaded in .QWK packages was great. Those were the days. I'd dial-in, download my subscribed mail, hang up, read it, reply to it, then dial-up again to upload my replies.
Ach, when I was a wee lad, I had to shovel coal into the back o' the PDP-9 1/2 to start the day. Aye, then hit the shorting bar on the Vibroplex to see if the next station were yet awake. A tobacco tin on the sounder made for a mighty report!
Uphill both ways, in knee-deep snow yet! Ach, ye young pups donna know what ye are goin' on about. . .
In a world with Linux, Solaris, OS X (a BSD, sorta), a zillion types of Windows, QNX, etc... why do we need so many BSDs? I mean, if someone wants to make their own version of an OSS project, that's up to them, but if you want to be relevant, you have to offer something new and relevant. If I'm going to run BSD on a server, I'm going to run something security oriented like OpenBSD so I can spend more time developing my applications.
Because you've got that Mac G4 with OS9 on it sitting around at work gathering dust, and it would make a great database server. FreeBSD's port ain't ready for Prime Time, and who wants the hassle of Linux? NetBSD is the perfect choice. This machine has been serving up BAMP flawlessly for over 120 days straight. . .
but does it come complete with Jennifer Connelly?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102803/
All along, the author gives interesting tit-bits. . .
So, this satisfies my RDA of pr0n?
Whats so special about spot 18?
Eighteen is eight, eight is five, five is four.
Four is cosmic.
In addition, while squirrelmail may address the mail issue, it may not address the groupware functionality his users may require (calendaring, ldap address editing, tasks, group appointments). I've had offices as small as 5 people insist on having Exchange based on their "need" for groupware.
Golly, if they need groupware that badly, build moregroupware. It works for us, and we even use it as project management software.
The supposed "showdown" on Jay Leno was a highly unscientific and inaccurate test which pitted the world's fasted morse coder using very expensive morse equipment against a teenager using a cheap cell phone with a membrane keypad.
.world's fastest morse coder. . .' was nothing of the kind. He was a typical Ham Radio contest enthusiast. Also, no one but some goofball on ./ would call them 'morse coders'.
Retard. That '. .
They're radio amateurs, cw ops, ham radio guys, even brass pounders, but not 'morse coders.'
Besides, Morse isn't a code, it's a cipher.
Now, crawl back in your hole, curl up in the fetal position, rock back and forth, and meditate on the difference between entertainment and real science while sucking your thumb.
depending upon your data situation, how about RAID 1+0 or RAID 0+1 rather than RAID 5? RAID 5 will bite you in the ass, sooner or later.
I've got the teeth marks to prove it.
"The fact that Al Quaeda hasn't attacked us again just proves that we are winning the war on terror, and that we are doing the right things to prevent it."
Oh, I'm sorry, that's not bad science, that's just really bad logic. . .
after all, H2 is the lightest gas around. It'll dissipate immediately at a fueling station or wherever. Gasoline vapors, on the other hand, are heavier than air and tend to pool. That seems much more dangerous to me.
huggles for dual sparcstation 20! Her SBUS is soo kyoot...
And did it come with the side-loading CD-ROM?
Why, yes it did! But, I couldn't open it because I couldn't wrestle the box out of your widdle handsies. . .
The Pentium 2 chip's light may be waning, but I still have two fileservers that will continue to defy Moore's Law.
My firewall is [and will continue to be] a Pentium 75 MHz machine, with 40 Mb of RAM. It just doesn't need to be any bigger/better/faster.
My Mail machine is a dual 75 MHz sun sparcserver 20. Again, fast enough for the job.
I guess now could be the time to publish that book "101 Uses For An Obsolete Pentium 2 Chip". Bathroom tiles? Floor mosaic? Xmas ornaments?
Neckerchief slides for the Intel Youth Corps.
Find me three pieces that would be playable by less than a college level performer that use a 5/4 time signature. Much more common would be 2/4 which is often used in music a child of that age might sing or perform. (After just helping my 7 year old prepare for a recital with a piece in a 2/4 time signature,...)
One comes to mind: Pentameter March. Played it in 7th grade band.
"Money" by Pink Floyd--my son can play that on the Bass, and he is 16. [Sorry, that's 7/4 time]
"My Way" by Soundgarden is in 5/4. He hasn't worked on that one yet.
Ok, he isn't 7, but odd meter music isn't all that rare. Take the theme from Mission Impossible. . .
...are a thriving breed, amongst I count myself member. I know many an advanced degree student who put all sorts of assignments off. They expect it, honestly. This year the computer engineering senior projects final project specification requirements (40 pages) were handed out on monday and due that friday.
As computers began to overtake typewriters both at college level and at work, my stated maxim was [and still is]: the most significant contribution that computers have made to our lives is the ability to procrastinate even longer . . .
That's right--make everyone take a license test before they can get on the Internet! Just like Ham Radio!
The Novice license will allow gopher access only to sunsite.unc.edu, and you can use the 'ping' command with restrictions.
The General License will allow text-based email, sftp, ntpdate and limited usenet access [again, text based].
The Extra License will allow www access [text based], unlimited usenet newsgroup access, ssh and limited streaming audio.
Only the Governmental Microsoft Expert License will allow GUI's, full use of IE and streaming anything you damned well please. Oh, and if you are a GMEL licensee, you *must* run IIS on all your machines, and they all must be directly connected to the Internet.
There.