Well, if you have a phish sticker on your car, the cops are naturally going to assume you smoke pot. If you smoke pot, chances are good you're possessing pot. Let's be realistic about this? What's the percentage of pot-smoking phishheads? Dunno, but the impression to the general public is that "They're the new grateful dead" and that's cause enough for most. Right or wrong, that's the impression.
I gave up bumper stickers on my cars over a decade ago. Sometimes I'm concerned about my BOFH license plate, but not too much. Still, the only sticker on my car is a white Apple logo on the side window. Nothing else. there's no need to give anyone cause for thinking anything about you.
I've become the privacy person lately and don't like giving details of myself to people unecessarily. THANKFULLY identity theft is my reason I give when people ask, so identity theft has been good for wackos like me.
Point taken. I recently ranted in my blog about my credit card (one left) company PROVIDIAN who uses Indian call-centers. And it sounds like the use poorly done VoiP to do them, so half the time it's like they're on a crappy digital cell phone. VoiP is great, if you set it up right, but put a strong Hindi accent on a cell phone, sorry, I can't understand it. And they're persistent fsckers, late one day and they'll call you three times a day. As soon as financially possible, they're dumped with a letter saying "use american call centers with English as a primary language please..."
It is more worth my time and money to spend $399 on the cheapo Dell PC for my dad and just have him call tech support when he needs help. Dad's not technical and my patience has worn thin for technical support of "click, double click," etc.
"So, Dad, what did Dell say when you called them? "
"I didn't call em yet"
"Okay, well, ya know we paid for that with the computer. Let's get our money's worth..."
I use an LL Bean briefcase that I picked up on sale, and on liquidation sale on top of that. It was about $15 for an $85 bag.
I use one of the outer pockets to store my iBook in (12" version) and store my cables and few papers in the main compartment. I'm careful to not drop it, but were I to be flying with this bag, I'd make a foam insert for it.
I've also fit the office's windows laptop in the bag along with the ibook, making for a convenient two computer bag.
It's a great bag that was reasonably priced. And it comes with the LLBean guarantee, which is second to none.
A cow-orker of mine uses a slightly larger one and he stuffs reams of paper into it. It must weigh about 40# full.
I can't seem to find it on the LLBean website right now, else I'd put a link in here.
1. MIT owns a Class A license for ips, that is a lil over 16 million.
license?
Allocation, perhaps?
Net police: "Sir, we noticed you were spamming from this ip. Can I see your IP license and domain registration?" Offender: "Office, I swear, they were all opt-in addresses... really"
In general, dd will complain if the source drive is larger than the target drive, but the way we usually get drives is that the drives keep getting bigger in size.
So, I usually copy my 4G drive to the new 10G drive. In 90% of instances that I use dd, it's to try and save a dying drive.
You can also copy things by partition as well, so run fdisk (or other prefered partition tool) on the new drive and you can do
dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdb1
the bs argument is handy for making things not take so long. Using no argument on bs means it copies every single block, which is s l o w. Even using a block size of 1024 is faster.
> Is this what blogging is about? Really? Online > personal diaries about one's daily minutiae? There's > got to be more effective therapies available. A > weekly pint at the corner pub with friends, popping > bubble-wrap, I dunno, something...
Yes, it is stupid to expect you to want to read the complete personal details of someone's dull life. He's simply promoted his weblog in the wrong place (slashdot is the wrong place for lots of things). But to his friends and family back home, I'd bet they get a kick out of reading his blog and are anxious to see whenever he posts.
The vast majority of weblogs are this very personal and small group setting where a group of 'friends' (perhaps we can use the term cohort here) are blogging about themselves to each other. It's not intended as a broadcast blog. Broadcast blogs are much less numerous than the personal cohort type blogs.
So yes, this IS what blogging is really about to a vast majority of the people out there. Outside of the cohort, very boring. Inside the cohort, engaging.
Clay Shirky has done some interesting research into this field.
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Well, not quite 2 years ago, but close. July 19th, 2002.
:)
I also use four different methods for getting stuff that's not in stable (or ancient on stable) into my systems:
1) debian source packages
2) Source - like, source source.
3) backports.org
4) version pinning (which I do less of now that I do (3) above.
HTH
and that fan art is right next to the word 'disturbing' in my dictionary ;)
Well, if you have a phish sticker on your car, the cops are naturally going to assume you smoke pot. If you smoke pot, chances are good you're possessing pot. Let's be realistic about this? What's the percentage of pot-smoking phishheads? Dunno, but the impression to the general public is that "They're the new grateful dead" and that's cause enough for most. Right or wrong, that's the impression.
I gave up bumper stickers on my cars over a decade ago. Sometimes I'm concerned about my BOFH license plate, but not too much. Still, the only sticker on my car is a white Apple logo on the side window. Nothing else. there's no need to give anyone cause for thinking anything about you.
I've become the privacy person lately and don't like giving details of myself to people unecessarily. THANKFULLY identity theft is my reason I give when people ask, so identity theft has been good for wackos like me.
Good luck.
But that's ok, cause Hormel has a hell of a case against Internet Marketing Solutions. :)
http://www.talker.com/john/mov/no_id_arrest_SMALL. mov
Now be nice kids.... please populate your OWN mirrors.
IIRC, the language is refered to as Hindi, yes?
:)
Point taken. I recently ranted in my blog about my credit card (one left) company PROVIDIAN who uses Indian call-centers. And it sounds like the use poorly done VoiP to do them, so half the time it's like they're on a crappy digital cell phone. VoiP is great, if you set it up right, but put a strong Hindi accent on a cell phone, sorry, I can't understand it. And they're persistent fsckers, late one day and they'll call you three times a day. As soon as financially possible, they're dumped with a letter saying "use american call centers with English as a primary language please..."
Your point is taken though.
It is more worth my time and money to spend $399 on the cheapo Dell PC for my dad and just have him call tech support when he needs help. Dad's not technical and my patience has worn thin for technical support of "click, double click," etc.
"So, Dad, what did Dell say when you called them? "
"I didn't call em yet"
"Okay, well, ya know we paid for that with the computer. Let's get our money's worth..."
Seems to be the best deal going for me.
I'd think it'd be a 503. Not enough operators on hand, exceeded usage...
;)
Now, disconnected number - that'd sound more like a 404
Read the article with the mind set that "web surfer= Internet user"
Now you can understand what they mean. Sadly, if you use the Internet for ANYTHING the common media considers you a web surfer.
SSH, FTP, IM, anything, it's ALL web surfing according to them. No, it ain't right, but it's more like "Common knowledge" - remember the SNL gameshow?
I use an LL Bean briefcase that I picked up on sale, and on liquidation sale on top of that. It was about $15 for an $85 bag.
I use one of the outer pockets to store my iBook in (12" version) and store my cables and few papers in the main compartment. I'm careful to not drop it, but were I to be flying with this bag, I'd make a foam insert for it.
I've also fit the office's windows laptop in the bag along with the ibook, making for a convenient two computer bag.
It's a great bag that was reasonably priced. And it comes with the LLBean guarantee, which is second to none.
A cow-orker of mine uses a slightly larger one and he stuffs reams of paper into it. It must weigh about 40# full.
I can't seem to find it on the LLBean website right now, else I'd put a link in here.
Good luck
[cartman type=pissed off] GODDAMNIT!!!! [/cartman] ;)
GODAMNIT!!
oops, dont download the 48MB one, it has errors in it that I didn't notice. Sorry bout that.
Just pick up the 27MB
mirrored in my movie archive
http://talker.com/john/mov/wilhelm_48mb.mov
or
http://talker.com/john/mov/wilhelm_27mb.mov
be nice to my server if you can please
What?!?!? He falls and loses his arm???
;)
I was gonna finally watch that movie - now you've ruined it! THANKS!!!!!!
Pardon, but...
And once the UN understands that the 1st adm. has to apply to everyone then the UN will be on the path to stoping being a country club for dictators
1st adm. ?
Memo From: Los Angeles County
To: All vendors
All vendors shall cease the use of the word 'black' when describing pots, kettles, tankards and any other vessels of like kind.
La la la la, la la la la, Elmos' net.
:)
la la la la la la la Elmos Net,
Elmo loves his ip space,
His fat pipes too,
That's, Elmo's Net!
(those who spend a day home each week with their 2-year old get this
1. MIT owns a Class A license for ips, that is a lil over 16 million.
license?
Allocation, perhaps?
Net police: "Sir, we noticed you were spamming from this ip. Can I see your IP license and domain registration?"
Offender: "Office, I swear, they were all opt-in addresses... really"
heh
HEy, what are you doing in this topic? Now get back there... do you have anything to declare? ;)
:)
p.s. - next time you come down south here, can you bring some drugs?
> I'm not sure if this was a serious suggestion
> or not, but this is exactly how I do it!
It was a serious suggestion.
The partition tables will be copied.
In general, dd will complain if the source drive is larger than the target drive, but the way we usually get drives is that the drives keep getting bigger in size.
So, I usually copy my 4G drive to the new 10G drive. In 90% of instances that I use dd, it's to try and save a dying drive.
You can also copy things by partition as well, so run fdisk (or other prefered partition tool) on the new drive and you can do
dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdb1
the bs argument is handy for making things not take so long. Using no argument on bs means it copies every single block, which is s l o w. Even using a block size of 1024 is faster.
HTH
dd bs=8192 if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb
It's worked for me.
Other than that, I've used ghost.
> Is this what blogging is about? Really? Online
> personal diaries about one's daily minutiae? There's
> got to be more effective therapies available. A
> weekly pint at the corner pub with friends, popping
> bubble-wrap, I dunno, something...
Yes, it is stupid to expect you to want to read the complete personal details of someone's dull life. He's simply promoted his weblog in the wrong place (slashdot is the wrong place for lots of things). But to his friends and family back home, I'd bet they get a kick out of reading his blog and are anxious to see whenever he posts.
The vast majority of weblogs are this very personal and small group setting where a group of 'friends' (perhaps we can use the term cohort here) are blogging about themselves to each other. It's not intended as a broadcast blog. Broadcast blogs are much less numerous than the personal cohort type blogs.
So yes, this IS what blogging is really about to a vast majority of the people out there. Outside of the cohort, very boring. Inside the cohort, engaging.
Clay Shirky has done some interesting research into this field.
unless you encrypt your traffic end to end.
SSH tunnels are so useful.