Everyone here is ranting on about "Yeah, I've seen it done before in cars, video cards, etc. Only one post brought up the point that it may be a simple mistake and a little more digging would have clarified the situation. Note this:
The contrast specs on the Samsung USA site show the following:
How would you explain so many/.'ers running SETI@HOME?
We would think it really, really neat if there was intelligent life elsewhere. Some put optimistic values in Drake's equation and are absolutely convinced that there MUST be life elsewhere.
We just don't believe it has come buzzing down in flying saucers to rural areas inserting anal probes in the uneducated farmer.
Very true. Our current homestay student from Japn (we're in Vancouver) came here with the expectation to fill out her MD collection with some cheap North American titles. To her great dismay there's nothing available.
My kids (12 & 10) do this everytime they visit Toronto and also did it at the Blackpool tower last summer. Never fails to freak the living shit out of others in the vicinity.
Trigger-happy hackers from the "real world" shooting out support cables and taking wild rides upwards grasping tight, shiny leather-clad babes whilst mumbling about the non-existence of certain pieces of cutlery.
The CN tower is once and for all the world tallest free-standing...
TOURIST TRAP!!!!
Have you SEEN what they charge for an elevator ride to the main observation level. And then another ridiculous amount to take that crappy little elevator to the groddy little top observation deck which really isn't any different from the main level cause you're already so high up.
The "glass" floor in the main observation level is kinda cool though. 342m (1,122 ft) straight down beneath your feet. Acrophobics beware!!
And I'm likely wrong 'cos I'm writing this using neurons that I haven't accessed since 1983 or so
Scary isn't it? I can remember how to use the IBM 029 card punch into which I entered the seven instructions on the framed printout that graces my office walls.
POP3 every hour or even every 15 minutes isn't going to cut it. An email comes into my inbox, or more importantly the Helpdesk inbox, I want to see it NOW!
As we are a mix of Linux and Win2K I do a lot by the command line (hence SSH).
VNC is useful for troubleshooting user problems not necessarily because I can remote control their PC but because I can see what is on their screen.
The one thing I gave up when we replaced or Novell boxes with Samba was really fine-grained ACL's that worked with the overlying authentication system.
Set access for a directory to an ad-hoc set of groups and permisisons flow or don;t according to a detailed set of masks.
That is, each time individual types of a single character on the computer keyboard, that character is transmitted to all other participants in the instant messaging session.
Oh! You mean like:
W..a..k..e..,....u..p....N..e..o.
T..h..e....M..a..t..r..i..x....h..a..s....y..o.. u.
70 BC: Virgil born. 1844: Friedrich Nietzsche born. 1908: John Kenneth Galbraith born. 1917: Mata Hari, the Dutch dancer and spy for the Germans, was executed by firing squad near Paris. 1946: Convicted Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering poisoned himself the day before he was to be executed. 1951: I Love Lucy premiered on CBS. 1991: The Senate confirmed the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the US Supreme Court by a 52 to 48 vote.
Actually Nor Mai Gai (sticky rice wrapped in a lotus Leaf) would be good space food. Dim Sum, mmmmmm.
But the point about chopsticks being good for eating in space is absolutely right as ha been shown on the various shuttle flights that had Japanese astronauts on board. You can pick anything right out of the air.
Not everyone wants to be in a bar with a crowd of drunken rowdies. The ones who will be the most averse to this will be the troublemakers who will go elsewhere.
I don't go to bars here in Vancouver, I do go to pubs in the U.K. (at least not near a football ground). I'm looking for a quiet, relaxed atmosphere where I can enjoy a drink with my mates or my wife (not necessarily in that order).
The picture taking is a bit much, though. With regards to potential swiping damage, should they use the 2D bar code as an alternative as BC's pretty driver's licenses have both?
Interesting that 90% of the replies to this story are about necrophilic ducks. Says something about the/. population that they find it *htat* interesting.
What I really want to see are the test films from J. Stapp's rocket sled rides.
You point out one of the blind spots that many of us have through training. As others have shown, there are in fact CTRL and ALT keys on the right side of the keyboard as well.
At some point it may have been easy to hit both and then the DEL key in the group-of-six but with a Windows and Menu key in between the CTRL and ALT on my Dell keyboard it requires an uncomfortable stretching of thumb, curling of index finger and reach with my middle finger to hit the sequence.
Much easier to use the good old left ring finger, left index finger, right index finger combination, espeiclaly when you can slam the right finger down with the appropriate disgust at your crappy OS dying again.
Slashdot Mirror
Not as I do.
'nuff said.
Everyone here is ranting on about "Yeah, I've seen it done before in cars, video cards, etc. Only one post brought up the point that it may be a simple mistake and a little more digging would have clarified the situation. Note this:
The contrast specs on the Samsung USA site show the following:
172T - 700:1
173T - 450:1
The specs on the Samsung Canada site say:
172T - 500:1
173T - 700:1
Perhaps he got a Canadian unit although I don't know why they would be any different.
It's cloudy and rainy in Vancouver. :-(
"Enter!"
Steps to stop and disable a service running on Win2K: 6
Steps to stop and disable a service running on WinXP: 9
Steps to stop and disable a service running on Linux: 3
1) Open a Command Prompt (OK, OK, Terminal Session)
2) Type: service messenger stop
3) Type: chkconfig messenger off
Ummm..
I was referring to UserFriendly's Cat 5.
Geeks have been calling their pets geeky names for centuries.
Thomas Edison might have had a dog called spark.
First named here.
How would you explain so many /.'ers running SETI@HOME?
We would think it really, really neat if there was intelligent life elsewhere. Some put optimistic values in Drake's equation and are absolutely convinced that there MUST be life elsewhere.
We just don't believe it has come buzzing down in flying saucers to rural areas inserting anal probes in the uneducated farmer.
They believe..whatever they want to believe.
Sorry, I saw Reloaded again last night...
Sosumi.
Very true. Our current homestay student from Japn (we're in Vancouver) came here with the expectation to fill out her MD collection with some cheap North American titles. To her great dismay there's nothing available.
LOL
My kids (12 & 10) do this everytime they visit Toronto and also did it at the Blackpool tower last summer. Never fails to freak the living shit out of others in the vicinity.
Trigger-happy hackers from the "real world" shooting out support cables and taking wild rides upwards grasping tight, shiny leather-clad babes whilst mumbling about the non-existence of certain pieces of cutlery.
The CN tower is once and for all the world tallest free-standing...
TOURIST TRAP!!!!
Have you SEEN what they charge for an elevator ride to the main observation level. And then another ridiculous amount to take that crappy little elevator to the groddy little top observation deck which really isn't any different from the main level cause you're already so high up.
The "glass" floor in the main observation level is kinda cool though. 342m (1,122 ft) straight down beneath your feet. Acrophobics beware!!
And I'm likely wrong 'cos I'm writing this using neurons that I haven't accessed since 1983 or so
Scary isn't it? I can remember how to use the IBM 029 card punch into which I entered the seven instructions on the framed printout that graces my office walls.
A machine I have not seen since 1980.
POP3 every hour or even every 15 minutes isn't going to cut it. An email comes into my inbox, or more importantly the Helpdesk inbox, I want to see it NOW!
As we are a mix of Linux and Win2K I do a lot by the command line (hence SSH).
VNC is useful for troubleshooting user problems not necessarily because I can remote control their PC but because I can see what is on their screen.
Third party product but there ya go:
NotifyLink.
1) Set up a SSH connection?
2) Run a VNC session over a VPN?
3) Get EMail "pushed" to the Treo? (Blackberry-style)
With these I'll have all I need.
The one thing I gave up when we replaced or Novell boxes with Samba was really fine-grained ACL's that worked with the overlying authentication system.
Set access for a directory to an ad-hoc set of groups and permisisons flow or don;t according to a detailed set of masks.
Exactly. For my Samba boxes I want a filesystem that is fast, fault-tolerant and can support proper NT-style ACLs without too much dicking around.
Recommendations?
That is, each time individual types of a single character on the computer keyboard, that character is transmitted to all other participants in the instant messaging session.
. u.
.
Oh! You mean like:
W..a..k..e..,....u..p....N..e..o.
T..h..e....M..a..t..r..i..x....h..a..s....y..o.
K..n..o..c..k..,....k..n..o..c..k..,....N..e..o
These happened on Oct. 15:
70 BC: Virgil born.
1844: Friedrich Nietzsche born.
1908: John Kenneth Galbraith born.
1917: Mata Hari, the Dutch dancer and spy for the Germans, was executed by firing squad near Paris.
1946: Convicted Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering poisoned himself the day before he was to be executed.
1951: I Love Lucy premiered on CBS.
1991: The Senate confirmed the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the US Supreme Court by a 52 to 48 vote.
Ummm.
Maybe you're right...
Sticky rice, anyone?
This is a Chinese flight, not Japanese.
Actually Nor Mai Gai (sticky rice wrapped in a lotus Leaf) would be good space food. Dim Sum, mmmmmm.
But the point about chopsticks being good for eating in space is absolutely right as ha been shown on the various shuttle flights that had Japanese astronauts on board. You can pick anything right out of the air.
"Beginner's ruck"
Not everyone wants to be in a bar with a crowd of drunken rowdies. The ones who will be the most averse to this will be the troublemakers who will go elsewhere.
I don't go to bars here in Vancouver, I do go to pubs in the U.K. (at least not near a football ground). I'm looking for a quiet, relaxed atmosphere where I can enjoy a drink with my mates or my wife (not necessarily in that order).
The picture taking is a bit much, though. With regards to potential swiping damage, should they use the 2D bar code as an alternative as BC's pretty driver's licenses have both?
Interesting that 90% of the replies to this story are about necrophilic ducks. Says something about the /. population that they find it *htat* interesting.
What I really want to see are the test films from J. Stapp's rocket sled rides.
You point out one of the blind spots that many of us have through training. As others have shown, there are in fact CTRL and ALT keys on the right side of the keyboard as well.
At some point it may have been easy to hit both and then the DEL key in the group-of-six but with a Windows and Menu key in between the CTRL and ALT on my Dell keyboard it requires an uncomfortable stretching of thumb, curling of index finger and reach with my middle finger to hit the sequence.
Much easier to use the good old left ring finger, left index finger, right index finger combination, espeiclaly when you can slam the right finger down with the appropriate disgust at your crappy OS dying again.