I'm 99.999% sure it is 24^7 which comes to 4,586,471,424 possible combinations. My question is why do you say 24 possible characters. Why aren't there 26? If its 26 then there are 8,031,810,176 possible combinations.
Elections are coming up and the Republicans are doing their usual "Lets cut taxes" campaign. So in order to justify this, they have to cut something. So they've decided to cut out the F-22 program and cut back on NASA spending. Aren't these the same people who criticized Clinton for slashing the military?
Why did you think the Republicans were against censorship? I have always felt they were very much into censorship. The Republicans try to convince us that they are anti-government. But in reality they aren't, they are just anti-tax. Which is fine, but I think they are actually more pro-government when it comes to personal freedoms such as freedom of speech and freedom of religion. Its kind of a trade off. Less taxes but less individual freedoms.
I personally think all political parties should be banned. Let the candidates run on their own agenda, not a parties. Then we might get some people in office who are actually concerned with whats going on.
Since Microsoft is so willing to test on a low end system, lets make this low end system actually do some work. Let it be a file server. Let it be a print server. Let it be a web server. Let it be a ftp server. Let it be a mail server. And let it be all these at the same time. Then figure out how much it would cost for this low end system to do all this on a 100 user network.
Now do this same test with NT. How much will this cost now to have the same capabilities?
Finally lets access this server from another location to administer it.
Hell, these low end systems are what we buy. And I work in the I.T. department for a medium size city (200,000). We don't own a single quad-processor server. We do have one dual-processor server with 512MB's of ram to run a n Oracle database we haven't implemented yet. I'm still trying to get it switched from NT to Linux.
We'll be switching from a mainframe accounting system to a ERP in the next two years and I guarantee you it won't be running on NT. For that we'll probably get a Sun system. So NT loses on the low end and high end. It may have the edge for middle-tier systems, but I'm sure the Linux community is more than capable of closing the gap in the next year or two.
I first started in public school in the 4th grade. From there through the 6th grade, I was one of the most popular kids in school. I always had a girlfriend. I got good grades. Then puberty set in. My junior high years 7th thru 9th grade were bad. I was no longer popular. Girls didn't like me. I lost interest in them. My grades started suffering. But through it all, I still knew right from wrong. My best friend began hanging out with some kids I knew were trouble. I could have hung out with these guys. But I chose a different path. High school started and I made new friends. I started participating in sports again. I graduated from high school in 1985. I took Calculus, Physics, Chemistry, and AP Biology. I scored 1200 on my SAT's. A nerd? But guess what? I also played football and baseball. A jock? So basically I experienced both sides.
I must have graduated from the greatest high school in the country, because I do not ever remember a "jock" ever beating up a nerd or geek. As a matter of fact, I do remember an occasion where a "nerd" was defended by a "jock" against the true problem kids, those who didn't care about school or athletics, just wanted to get stoned or drunk.
I notice a lot of you take an "us versus them" attitude. Which is precisely the same attitude you probably took in high school. Don't get me wrong. I'm all for expressing your individuality and finding your own identity. There is a lot of pressure on kids to fit in. I suffered through junior high because I didn't "fit in". But I overcame that. Most kids do.
Someone wrote "Why do we murder the spirits of our most gifted and talented young people? THEY are the ones that are our future. THEY are the ones that are best equipped to build the world to their hopes and dreams." I'm sorry, THEY are NOT our future. Our future lies in those students who are respectful to their teachers, fellow students, and parents. Our future lies in those students who re outgoing academically and socially. In fact most successful students also participate in extra-curricular events such as sports, debate, forensics, academic clubs, and cheerleading. These are the kids who usually go on to college and become successful. How do you think these kids who can't adjust to high school can EVER adjust to the real world?
So while some of you spend all your time playing on the computer or playing video games or fantasy board games, there are other kids out playing soccer or baseball or basketball, developing a better self-esteem, developing communication skills. There is plenty of time later in life to stay locked inside. Believe me, I would much rather be outside now than trapped in my office 8 hours a day.
To anyone reading this who is still in school: If you are being picked on by individuals or groups, report it to your principal. If they don't do anything about it, call your school system's superintendent. If that doesn't help, write a letter to your newspaper. Someone will listen eventually.
If any of you have thought about suicide or actually getting a gun and bringing it to school, get yourself some professional help. Don't try and solve these problems yourself.
Finally, a piece of advice for everyone. Get out of the house once in a while. Turn off your computer, tv, and video game. Close the books. Go outside. There's a big yellow gaseous ball of fire in the sky called the sun. It can do wonders. Go sit on a beach or visit a park. Go rollerblading. Just do something. Peace.
Thats great logic. Its much better for 25,000 of us to be killed by ourselves each year than have some dictator take us over. Who? Castro? Or is Canada gonna invade us. Come on.
If I can have the right to own a gun, why can't I have the right to own a nuclear warhead? They are both intended for the same purpose.
Leave the guns to law enforcement and the military.
Did you know that B&N needs 56 NT servers with SQL Server 7 to run their website. I read an article in InformationWeek on how their CIO couldn't wait for Windows 2000 so they could reduce their server s down to around 30-35 because it scales so much better than NT 4.0.
On the other hand, Amazon runs their entire website on 3 Sun Servers with Oracle.
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I'm 99.999% sure it is 24^7 which comes to 4,586,471,424 possible combinations. My question is why do you say 24 possible characters. Why aren't there 26? If its 26 then there are 8,031,810,176 possible combinations.
Elections are coming up and the Republicans are doing their usual "Lets cut taxes" campaign. So in order to justify this, they have to cut something. So they've decided to cut out the F-22 program and cut back on NASA spending. Aren't these the same people who criticized Clinton for slashing the military?
I'm worried now. I've got 3 years to change the world then I'm washed up?
Why did you think the Republicans were against censorship? I have always felt they were very much into censorship. The Republicans try to convince us that they are anti-government. But in reality they aren't, they are just anti-tax. Which is fine, but I think they are actually more pro-government when it comes to personal freedoms such as freedom of speech and freedom of religion.
Its kind of a trade off. Less taxes but less individual freedoms.
I personally think all political parties should be banned. Let the candidates run on their own agenda, not a parties. Then we might get some people in office who are actually concerned with whats going on.
I submitted this, but just like always, I was a little late. Eric better be careful. I smell a kidnapping or even an assasination attempt brewing.
He must be talking about 4.6. But it does have the option to turn off loading images.
I'm driving down tomorrow at noon. 3 1/2 hours later... Hope the sun's out so I can put the top down!
We didn't get a private showing of Star Wars? What's the problem?
Since Microsoft is so willing to test on a low end system, lets make this low end system actually do some work. Let it be a file server. Let it be a print server. Let it be a web server. Let it be a ftp server. Let it be a mail server. And let it be all these at the same time. Then figure out how much it would cost for this low end system to do all this on a 100 user network.
Now do this same test with NT. How much will this cost now to have the same capabilities?
Finally lets access this server from another location to administer it.
Hell, these low end systems are what we buy. And I work in the I.T. department for a medium size city (200,000). We don't own a single quad-processor server. We do have one dual-processor server with 512MB's of ram to run a n Oracle database we haven't implemented yet. I'm still trying to get it switched from NT to Linux.
We'll be switching from a mainframe accounting system to a ERP in the next two years and I guarantee you it won't be running on NT. For that we'll probably get a Sun system. So NT loses on the low end and high end. It may have the edge for middle-tier systems, but I'm sure the Linux community is more than capable of closing the gap in the next year or two.
I first started in public school in the 4th grade.
From there through the 6th grade, I was one of the most popular kids in school. I always had a girlfriend. I got good grades. Then puberty set in. My junior high years 7th thru 9th grade were bad. I was no longer popular. Girls didn't like me. I lost interest in them. My grades started suffering. But through it all, I still knew right from wrong. My best friend began hanging out with some kids I knew were trouble. I could have hung out with these guys. But I chose a different path. High school started and I made new friends. I started participating in sports again. I graduated from high school in 1985. I took Calculus, Physics, Chemistry, and AP Biology. I scored 1200 on my SAT's. A nerd? But guess what? I also played football and baseball. A jock? So basically I experienced both sides.
I must have graduated from the greatest high school in the country, because I do not ever remember a "jock" ever beating up a nerd or geek. As a matter of fact, I do remember an occasion where a "nerd" was defended by a "jock" against the true problem kids, those who didn't care about school or athletics, just wanted to get stoned or drunk.
I notice a lot of you take an "us versus them" attitude. Which is precisely the same attitude you probably took in high school. Don't get me wrong. I'm all for expressing your individuality and finding your own identity. There is a lot of pressure on kids to fit in. I suffered through junior high because I didn't "fit in". But I overcame that. Most kids do.
Someone wrote "Why do we murder the spirits of our most gifted and talented young people? THEY are the ones that are our future. THEY are the ones that are best equipped to build the world to their hopes and dreams." I'm sorry, THEY are NOT our future. Our future lies in those students who are respectful to their teachers, fellow students, and
parents. Our future lies in those students who re outgoing academically and socially. In fact most successful students also participate in extra-curricular events such as sports, debate,
forensics, academic clubs, and cheerleading. These are the kids who usually go on to college and become successful. How do you think these kids who can't adjust to high school can EVER adjust to the real world?
So while some of you spend all your time playing on the computer or playing video games or fantasy board games, there are other kids out playing soccer or baseball or basketball, developing a better self-esteem, developing communication skills. There is plenty of time later in life to stay locked inside. Believe me, I would much rather be outside now than trapped in my office 8 hours a day.
To anyone reading this who is still in school: If you are being picked on by individuals or groups, report it to your principal. If they don't do anything about it, call your school system's superintendent. If that doesn't help, write a letter to your newspaper. Someone will listen
eventually.
If any of you have thought about suicide or actually getting a gun and bringing it to school, get yourself some professional help. Don't try
and solve these problems yourself.
Finally, a piece of advice for everyone. Get out of the house once in a while. Turn off your computer, tv, and video game. Close the books. Go outside. There's a big yellow gaseous ball of fire in the sky called the sun. It can do wonders. Go sit on a beach or visit a park. Go rollerblading. Just do something. Peace.
Jeff Self aka "jocknerd"
its also jcoates1@aol.com or jcoatesl@aol.com. I can't tell whether its a 1 or l.
Thats great logic. Its much better for 25,000 of us to be killed by ourselves each year than have some dictator take us over. Who? Castro? Or is Canada gonna invade us. Come on.
If I can have the right to own a gun, why can't I have the right to own a nuclear warhead? They are both intended for the same purpose.
Leave the guns to law enforcement and the military.
Looked at it under QuickTime 3. No sound. So I'm downloading QuickTime 4. 1.1kb/sec on our T1! Man is that fast.
Wait, I thought they were Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows CE, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000. Talk about confusing!
Did you know that B&N needs 56 NT servers with SQL Server 7 to run their website. I read an article in InformationWeek on how their CIO couldn't wait for Windows 2000 so they could reduce their server s down to around 30-35 because it scales so much better than NT 4.0.
On the other hand, Amazon runs their entire website on 3 Sun Servers with Oracle.
I wonder how much each paid for their setups?