I for one can relate to Ms tech support being less than worthless. On one particualr problem with SQL server 5 (the thing would not backup data to tape) We also ponied up the dough to call MS tech support. After 3 days of futile "do this, do that" they gave up and said to install on another machine. Well I whack at it for another two days and finally figured out what ihe problem was. The tape drive was on the second SCSI controller. This was a old compaq box (nt3.51) EISA bus and all. To this day MS-SQL server still has problems with tape backups, scheduling and internal memory corruption errors. We have to use ARCServe to back it up reliably thou.
I also got 5 points used 2 and suddenly got all 5 again (weird) but then my karma been frozen for months now. must have been a unlucky 13 point karma bug. (who know?)
I had a person ask my be e-mail about a month ago on a problem I had with MS-SQL (I know, but if I have to deal with the biatch it WILL behave) The article I posted on USENET was over 3 years ago.
I also saw the part about being strong fibers, and I thought 'hm what about biological uses in repairing nerves?' What about imbedded in muscles or used as tendons?
It would be the one nerve somebody would get on, and you could tell them where to get off!
Maybe now I'll get the ultimate twitch i've wanted for Quake and Unreal
Looking up weird technical crap on hardware. Sometimes when setting up a Linux box you had some of that old hardware and needed to find out the settings for it. Sometimes it was to figure out WTF it was even.
As if we all did not use it when those hand me down pc's were dumped in our laps. I don't think Linux would be where it is today without Deja.
If only we could go back to Deja's content and moderate the hell out of it and remove the "Me too's", ads etc. But then some peoples treasure is anothers bit-bucket.
I've seen several people complain about loosing their anoniminity by the USENET being archived. It was'nt until the spammers came around that we all started hiding our e-mail address and names. Google could fix this thou by removing the e-mail addresses/posters names. Then you you would have rants without any credibility. Would it matter anymore?*sigh*. A no win situation.
Actualy our eyes have 4 types of light receptors. the 'cones' come in three types red, green, and blue. The 'rods' are just for detecting shades of grey. Dogs and cats only have the rods, but a lot more. Thats why we know they only see in black and white, its also why they can see better in the dark.
What I would want is a object recognizer (edge detector) so I could find my way to the bathroom at night without killing my shins.
Will the programs you develop in Linux be able to be played/packaged without the kit being attached to it? It would be cool to have a 'blank' game card that could be programed with the kit, then used without the kit. I would not care if the OS part was copyrighted if I could GPL my game, or in the worst case distribute my game in binary form.
Considering the cost ($300ps2 +$200kit) it would make a extremely cheap development platform for new games.
If this happened the X-box would be toast. EOL.
You know the porting of games would come fast and furious after that. eg: UT, UT2, Half-life, Q4, Tomb Raider, Turok, Drakken, Doom, Leisure Suit Larry and the Land of the Lounge Lizards. (yeah, I know some are already ported)
This is one of the reasons we need to get some younger judges who have at least some clue about the computer revolution that has happened around them. Seems the patent office has no idea what is going on.
I would like a modular system. You could mix and match the systems as needed. (Hm rack mount) Base system would be the control system (irDa, Hard drives, operation controller) One system per each tuner you wanted, mix and match in multiples (Tv, MP3, VHS/DAT. CD-RW) Should have VCD capablility (playing/recording) Game box.
All should be networked on a 100mb (or better) backbone. (maybe several)
Then grab a generic module (pc's-r-us) plug in a pre-built linux cdrom and Viola! a MP3 unit. You get the picture. That way you could add and improve as you go. Hm... I smell a new RFC on the way.
I'm getting tired of the massive cable snarl to hook up all my components together, and the signal loss problems!
What I wanted to do was use the blocklists that my web proxy uses eg. junkbuster
I also wanted to tie it to my fetchmail. That way I could 'pre-delete' any e-mail i saw on my pop3 account(s) without ever downloading to my site/pc. eg. using subject headers
When I sat down and thought about it a bit, I realized something. The MPAA and RIAA do not create anything.
The MPAA and RIAA are'nt afraid of Napster per se., but that Napster has the potential to replace them. What if Napster changed a bit and started soliciting the artists themselves for original music? The web right now has the ability to replace the MPAA and RIAA with work. Then the artists might be able to make the money instead of them.
One basic rule of buissness is this: get products and supplies from as close to the source as possible. Eg. the manufacturer
If the artists woke up and started distributing music/movies straight from the studios the RIAA and MPAA would be made obsolete. The RIAA and MPAA could not compete in this kind of market
Napster and similar products have the ability to to bypass the 3rd party. Furthermore; it gives the studio direct feedback as to what people actually want. (gee Star Wars X was just down loaded 2e7 times last month - maybe time for a series)
Seems like the MPAA and RIAA are trying desperately to protect their cash cow. Once artists/studios wise up, the days of MPAA and RIAA are numbered. They know it.
The new restrictions in Windows XP won't prevent other vendors' software applications from recording MP3 music at a higher fidelity, but early testers of beta versions of Windows XP already complain that the most popular MP3 recording applications -- which compete with Microsoft's format -- don't seem to function properly, apparently because of changes Microsoft made to how data are written on CD-ROMs under Windows XP. Microsoft says that while other software vendors' products may not be "optimized" to run with Windows XP, those products should run acceptably with the operating system.
Did any body notice this little fact? - apparently they will break the CD-ROM interface somehow to prevent all CD-burning software running on XP to choke.
This smacks of the war between MS and Lotus eg "DOS ain't done till Lotus won't run"Personlly I'm amazed at how much we are becoming a victim that we ignore this over and over. Maybe P.T.Barnum was right 'A sucker is born every minute'
Is there any protocol for doing IM on IRC? would it be a bandwidth problem to have 25,000,000 users have a 'login' to a chat channel in order to have the 'person is online' functionality? Or would it need a extra protocol on the clients tcp/ip ports in order to handle the person-to-person connectivity. (wait a minute that's icq) Eg: port 1023 for IM incoming data. Maybe have nested channels (for indexing/searching ease) and have all users start at level #person/a/b/r/a/abracadabra.
IRC is already a distributed multi-homed parallel database of channels. The search routine would be a bit tricky without nested channels I think. The infrastucture seems to be there already. Question is can it handle this?
I was suggesting this only as a starting point. Eg scanners/monitors/cameras/etc. all need some way to calibrate.
Why is there not goverment dept. like 'time' and 'weights' that establish specific colors?
Or better yet have a method of saying that the frequency xxxx.xxxx of the spectrum of light is blue? eg. A standard scale.
Ultimately all colors of a monitor or printer are 'simulatinos' of the real color bacause we only use 3 or 4 primary colors that are mixed. They systems we use for additive and subtractive type of coloring are for convenience only.
I remember when I was in the clothing industry there was a standard Pantone that was used for colors. That way a green xxxx.x was allways a green on pring, fabric, screen etc.
I remember reading a article on string theory that stated that there are actually 12 dimensions to space and that the we exist in 3 of them. The other dimensions are 'folded back' upon themselvs and are not directly accessable.
Would this not be a place to 'store' the black hole? eg. dimensions 1-3 are for the physical interface, 4-6 are a safety buffer and 7-9 are processors and memory and 10-12 could be the power supply/heat sink
Not another case to buy again - I just barely got all my machines up to the ATX format cases($450)
Makes me wonder if they are trying to push the P4 to market before it is ready. (Who cares about the heat! We need something to beat AMD now! sayeth Intel)
I still have a issue with the ATX power conector for the MB. I found that it never was quite reliable when it came to the green wire (The soft on/off switch) I would instead like two wires for that - one to the front panel switch, one to the MB
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I for one can relate to Ms tech support being less than worthless. On one particualr problem with SQL server 5 (the thing would not backup data to tape) We also ponied up the dough to call MS tech support. After 3 days of futile "do this, do that" they gave up and said to install on another machine. Well I whack at it for another two days and finally figured out what ihe problem was. The tape drive was on the second SCSI controller. This was a old compaq box (nt3.51) EISA bus and all. To this day MS-SQL server still has problems with tape backups, scheduling and internal memory corruption errors. We have to use ARCServe to back it up reliably thou.
I also got 5 points used 2 and suddenly got all 5 again (weird) but then my karma been frozen for months now. must have been a unlucky 13 point karma bug. (who know?)
Company: "It was no equipment of ours that set up a napster like server and put in all those beetle songs. We were hacked."
Judge: "So we will have to make all wireless bordcasting of data illegal"
I had a person ask my be e-mail about a month ago on a problem I had with MS-SQL (I know, but if I have to deal with the biatch it WILL behave) The article I posted on USENET was over 3 years ago.
It would be the one nerve somebody would get on, and you could tell them where to get off!
Maybe now I'll get the ultimate twitch i've wanted for Quake and Unreal
As if we all did not use it when those hand me down pc's were dumped in our laps. I don't think Linux would be where it is today without Deja.
If only we could go back to Deja's content and moderate the hell out of it and remove the "Me too's", ads etc. But then some peoples treasure is anothers bit-bucket.
I've seen several people complain about loosing their anoniminity by the USENET being archived. It was'nt until the spammers came around that we all started hiding our e-mail address and names. Google could fix this thou by removing the e-mail addresses/posters names. Then you you would have rants without any credibility. Would it matter anymore?*sigh*. A no win situation.
What I would want is a object recognizer (edge detector) so I could find my way to the bathroom at night without killing my shins.
Considering the cost ($300ps2 +$200kit) it would make a extremely cheap development platform for new games.
If this happened the X-box would be toast. EOL.
You know the porting of games would come fast and furious after that. eg: UT, UT2, Half-life, Q4, Tomb Raider, Turok, Drakken, Doom, Leisure Suit Larry and the Land of the Lounge Lizards. (yeah, I know some are already ported)
This is one of the reasons we need to get some younger judges who have at least some clue about the computer revolution that has happened around them. Seems the patent office has no idea what is going on.
All should be networked on a 100mb (or better) backbone. (maybe several)
Then grab a generic module (pc's-r-us) plug in a pre-built linux cdrom and Viola! a MP3 unit. You get the picture. That way you could add and improve as you go. Hm... I smell a new RFC on the way.
I'm getting tired of the massive cable snarl to hook up all my components together, and the signal loss problems!
What I wanted to do was use the blocklists that my web proxy uses eg. junkbuster
I also wanted to tie it to my fetchmail. That way I could 'pre-delete' any e-mail i saw on my pop3 account(s) without ever downloading to my site/pc. eg. using subject headers
BTW, you did not say... is this GPL? ;)
The MPAA and RIAA are'nt afraid of Napster per se., but that Napster has the potential to replace them. What if Napster changed a bit and started soliciting the artists themselves for original music? The web right now has the ability to replace the MPAA and RIAA with work. Then the artists might be able to make the money instead of them.
One basic rule of buissness is this: get products and supplies from as close to the source as possible. Eg. the manufacturer
If the artists woke up and started distributing music/movies straight from the studios the RIAA and MPAA would be made obsolete. The RIAA and MPAA could not compete in this kind of market
Napster and similar products have the ability to to bypass the 3rd party. Furthermore; it gives the studio direct feedback as to what people actually want. (gee Star Wars X was just down loaded 2e7 times last month - maybe time for a series)
Seems like the MPAA and RIAA are trying desperately to protect their cash cow. Once artists/studios wise up, the days of MPAA and RIAA are numbered. They know it.
This must be the date that Windows is recalled due to a copyright violation of Hell's EULA.
Seen some long drills a Radioshack.com recenlly (go figure)
Did any body notice this little fact? - apparently they will break the CD-ROM interface somehow to prevent all CD-burning software running on XP to choke.
This smacks of the war between MS and Lotus eg "DOS ain't done till Lotus won't run"Personlly I'm amazed at how much we are becoming a victim that we ignore this over and over. Maybe P.T.Barnum was right 'A sucker is born every minute'
Seriously thou; I would see the Comic Book companies REALLY getting into this without TOO many of us complaining too loudly. (Where is my Dirty Pair?)
So many laws - so many interpretations. Most new R.V.'s nowdays have a monitor for the backup camera. So a monitor is not illegal.
Besides in 2006 no TV will fall under the law
hm.. now what am I going to do with my Terapin VideoCD recorder. Just as I was finishing up trasfering my oriignals.
00 - 3 byte date/time (no century) - y2k fsck'd
01 - segement:offset - nuff said
didn't intel do chipsets as well?
Is there any protocol for doing IM on IRC? would it be a bandwidth problem to have 25,000,000 users have a 'login' to a chat channel in order to have the 'person is online' functionality? Or would it need a extra protocol on the clients tcp/ip ports in order to handle the person-to-person connectivity. (wait a minute that's icq) Eg: port 1023 for IM incoming data. Maybe have nested channels (for indexing/searching ease) and have all users start at level #person/a/b/r/a/abracadabra.
IRC is already a distributed multi-homed parallel database of channels. The search routine would be a bit tricky without nested channels I think. The infrastucture seems to be there already. Question is can it handle this?
I was suggesting this only as a starting point. Eg scanners/monitors/cameras/etc. all need some way to calibrate.
Why is there not goverment dept. like 'time' and 'weights' that establish specific colors?
Or better yet have a method of saying that the frequency xxxx.xxxx of the spectrum of light is blue? eg. A standard scale.
Ultimately all colors of a monitor or printer are 'simulatinos' of the real color bacause we only use 3 or 4 primary colors that are mixed. They systems we use for additive and subtractive type of coloring are for convenience only.
I remember when I was in the clothing industry there was a standard Pantone that was used for colors. That way a green xxxx.x was allways a green on pring, fabric, screen etc.
Back in time we go. Anybody for the old IBM graphics?
I remember reading a article on string theory that stated that there are actually 12 dimensions to space and that the we exist in 3 of them. The other dimensions are 'folded back' upon themselvs and are not directly accessable.
Would this not be a place to 'store' the black hole? eg. dimensions 1-3 are for the physical interface, 4-6 are a safety buffer and 7-9 are processors and memory and 10-12 could be the power supply/heat sink
Just rambling....
Not another case to buy again - I just barely got all my machines up to the ATX format cases($450)
Makes me wonder if they are trying to push the P4 to market before it is ready. (Who cares about the heat! We need something to beat AMD now! sayeth Intel)
I still have a issue with the ATX power conector for the MB. I found that it never was quite reliable when it came to the green wire (The soft on/off switch) I would instead like two wires for that - one to the front panel switch, one to the MB
IMHO the ATX MB/Power connector sucks shit