I remember Slackware as being the most fundamental flavor out there--where you have to meta-configure every little thing about it... aka "fine tune" if you will the thing from the ground up. Which made it a rather secure system to start with since out of the proverbial box, it opens nothing up until you do.
So; what is this "what Slackware should have" business???
I never have any issues with DHCP. In the technical arenas that I work in, every time there is a DHCP issue, it's because something silly happened like someone added a new host on the LAN like a cheap print server, or a Linux server that just coincidentally has it's own DHCP server, and when the two of them compete; guess what happens!:-)
I have the Multitech (http://www.multitech.com) routers and these are semi-Linux based routers, and like a lot of the Linux systems out there, they stay up for ungodly long periods of time and only get rebooted when power outages exceed the UPS, or I kick em for some reason.
Actually it has nothing to do with "logic". Fact is not all downsizings are for the express purpose of saving the business. A lot of companies simply need to improve stockholders portfolio entry valuations, and maybe changes in middle/upper management.
I have been through 5 companies in 5 years, and that the only reason they outsourced and downsized was to pay larger amounts of money to the upper management personnel and nothing else. Everyone there knew it, and saw it. The companies were healthy and doing a lot of business enough that it kept all of us very busy.
I learned through this to "follow the money". It's not always this way admittedly, but it's a larger percentage than many people will believe.
You should do both. Face it. The reason the shake up is there in the first place is because someone in the food chain isn't making enough money and wants to change things around so that they make more.
This likely will result in a possibility you come on to the new company... or not. Remember a lot depends on how much you are willing to accept as a reduction in pay which ultimately will happen at some point.
In the event that they don't want to pay you what you believe your worth, they will go for the lesser costing options (other people), and you would ultimately be out looking elsewhere.
You people had better not be sharing that illegal copy of Linux distro on your file sharing software!!! Three times you share that and we'll shut you down and ban you from any Internet connections for the rest of your life!!!
when I used to do a predominant part of my day coding, I used to set the editor to full screen, and use not a full bright white background, but a gray background and then use the color syntax highlighting on that. When your in a room with typical 6500 degree-kelvin florescent lighting, combined with the peak white background (paper page simulated) on the monitor, they do tend to make your eyes really have to focus much too hard.
What also helps the eye strain is if you are still using a CRT monitor, get the refresh rate on it higher than 72 hz. vertical rate. That alone is a major cause of eye strain and headaches. This is due to your eyes and brain being able to see the screens inter-scanning and blanking. I ran mine at 75hz until I got bigger screen then I could go to 90hz. Now I have flat panel screens but don't do much coding anymore, so I'm not sure what issues lie here except that I have no problems with my laptop screen and I'm on it all day long.
With that will go up substantially; the costs involved. So much so; that you are likely to balk at the price and bail on it. This is an economy killer law and someone needs to strike it down. I question the motivations behind the law in the first place. That old adage of "Follow the money" comes to mind here.
Fact is that it completely falls into the category of "charge what the public will bear". I think that was why the call it a "Free Market Economy" because someone provides the service, and you pay for the service until the point where the value isn't there anymore and begin to drop away from the service. Then they reduce prices to bring you back, and magically everyone finds this "happy medium" thing... Enough with the basic economy stuff though.
Now you also know why I cringe every time I get a spam message on my phone, and the carriers won't refund the charge because their system is open to hacking and spamming. The who mess just sucks.
While your at it then, you can side with many of the "liberals" in this country that want it to tilt almost completely into socialism by negating almost all of the constitution. Then at that point, all our freedoms are no more. I think if you were one who got into power and proposed that, they'd hustle you out of power so fast it would make your head spin.
Long live the constitution of the USA. It's ours collectively as a nation. If you don't like it's rules, go somewhere else.
This whole thing also shows that they are in a fairly visible prospectus to challenge and over turn any and all laws related to "fair use".
If they get their way; you will only have radio and TV. Items such as VCR's, PVR's, tape decks, and anything that can record will be prohibited by law. You won't even be able to own one of these devices for personal use. This is the goal of eliminating these rights of the public to own recording equipment. They will control what you see and hear.
Uummmm.... Title 18, Part 1, Chapter 47 of the United States Code, which covers anybody who "intentionally accesses a computer without authorization or exceeds authorized access"
If I read that right; it's referring to a "computer" specifically! First off, if I am accessing a WIFI connection that is OPEN, and the only place I go to is the available Internet; How is it then that I am accessing someones computer??? Secondly; How does that "exceed authorized access" especially when the connection is obviously available and fully OPEN??? Again, I'm not accessing someones computer on that connection; I'm going to the Internet.
The first statement is very specific and refers to a "computer". I'm not going after the computer. The second statement is so ambiguous, that it makes no specific associativity to the first sentence at all, much less anything else.
Who wrote the language for that law; a 5nd grader??
Well; if Verizon blocks these hierarchies, then the porn pushers will just move to the Big 8. Then those groups will be banned. Then they will move back to traditional web site advertising. This will include hijacking users web browsers again and forcibly bringing them to these sites to make sure you SEE that 13 year old getting whatever. They will then begin to ban HTTP port 80.
Did I not say some time back that the lawyers are greedy and the judges are now beginning to tear down their planned modus-operende to "get the cash"...
"Justice moves swiftly now that they've abolished all lawyers!". I'm waiting!
There is only one chip--Intel. There is only one chip--Intel. Thou shalt have no other chip before thee!!! There is only one chip--Intel. There is only one chip--Intel. Thou shalt have no other chip before thee!!! There is only one chip--Intel. There is only one chip--Intel. Thou shalt have no other chip before thee!!! There is only one chip--Intel. There is only one chip--Intel. Thou shalt have no other chip before thee!!!
It's another greedy lawyer. His real interest is in covering big business and ways to make sure this "OSS"is made incompatible with current patent law. Ultimately I'm sure he's got lobbyists in Washington pushing to get legislators to want to regulate open source anything and maybe even make it illegal.
Just another damned greedy lawyer voicing is woes at OSS.
Fact is that Chevy only makes really really big trucks these days and they're gas hogs. People are looking for economy now and you almost can't give a way a big vehicle anymore. Now if they were to offer say a Toyota hybrid.... You'd have a full stadium and the ticket sales would be enough to not only pay for the costs incurred with the execution, but also the burial, stadium traffic control, pay off the city budget for the year, and drop a few billion off of the national debt!!!
what else would be interesting is the next incarnation of "DOOM 4" and a large majority of the enemy is a spammer. Just think of the numbers of people who would not be able to associate life and reality with a game and begin really killing spammers...
The facts are that these people didn't show up in court, they really could care less what the courts do or say, and this guy likely will just move his stuff to off-shore to further obscure things. How do they intend to collect that large a sum of an award??? The law prohibits attaching any pensions or social security he might have. Any money he has gotten through all this is probably in swiss bank accounts and untouchable by the US. He's pretty much flipping the bird to the law; the judges, the government and everyone involved.
How much of this advertised speed is more or less advertising hype more than anything else??? We all know what it takes to do packet inspection and rules table lookups, so to me, this number seems a bit on the hyped up side...
On my Compaq EVO N610c, it installed just fine. It did take a similar amount of time; nearly 2 hours, but no strangeness. At the end of it, I had to reboot so I did and it came back up and ran fine. One gig RAM and 40gb hdd. Nothing special.
It does appear however to have trashed the partitions on my external USB drive. I can't mount any of them and I'm waiting until later to test more before I conclude that removable drives are not working under SP3.
I just installed it on a duplicate machine to the one I am using now.
I did not encounter booting issues as others have complained about. The machine appears to function normally. No real visible signs of change except the Service Pack 3 identifier in the system applet.
I did have a 500gb external USB2 hard drive attached and it now appears that both partitions have been destroyed on it. I put it on another machine and looked at it, and at this point, it's unreadable. I will later try and see if I can mount it and examine under Linux.
You might be right there. I now remember scads of the SCO debacle. I still have this hint of something Microsoft was involved in... Oh well. I'm getting on in life and one of the things I need to do is put past behind and move forward..
Someone should come up with a decent WAD file then for the thing and include the entire RIAA headquarters building somewhere, and all the enemy is the RIAA lawyers!!!
Didn't Microsoft try this tactic some time back?? I'm almost sure of it but can't remember what and when. Seem to me they were trying to get the whole premise of "free software" banned on a legal level. Anyone??
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I remember Slackware as being the most fundamental flavor out there--where you have to meta-configure every little thing about it... aka "fine tune" if you will the thing from the ground up. Which made it a rather secure system to start with since out of the proverbial box, it opens nothing up until you do.
So; what is this "what Slackware should have" business???
Interesting...
I never have any issues with DHCP. In the technical arenas that I work in, every time there is a DHCP issue, it's because something silly happened like someone added a new host on the LAN like a cheap print server, or a Linux server that just coincidentally has it's own DHCP server, and when the two of them compete; guess what happens! :-)
I have the Multitech (http://www.multitech.com) routers and these are semi-Linux based routers, and like a lot of the Linux systems out there, they stay up for ungodly long periods of time and only get rebooted when power outages exceed the UPS, or I kick em for some reason.
Actually it has nothing to do with "logic". Fact is not all downsizings are for the express purpose of saving the business. A lot of companies simply need to improve stockholders portfolio entry valuations, and maybe changes in middle/upper management.
I have been through 5 companies in 5 years, and that the only reason they outsourced and downsized was to pay larger amounts of money to the upper management personnel and nothing else. Everyone there knew it, and saw it. The companies were healthy and doing a lot of business enough that it kept all of us very busy.
I learned through this to "follow the money". It's not always this way admittedly, but it's a larger percentage than many people will believe.
You should do both. Face it. The reason the shake up is there in the first place is because someone in the food chain isn't making enough money and wants to change things around so that they make more.
This likely will result in a possibility you come on to the new company... or not. Remember a lot depends on how much you are willing to accept as a reduction in pay which ultimately will happen at some point.
In the event that they don't want to pay you what you believe your worth, they will go for the lesser costing options (other people), and you would ultimately be out looking elsewhere.
Been there; done that.
You people had better not be sharing that illegal copy of Linux distro on your file sharing software!!! Three times you share that and we'll shut you down and ban you from any Internet connections for the rest of your life!!!
when I used to do a predominant part of my day coding, I used to set the editor to full screen, and use not a full bright white background, but a gray background and then use the color syntax highlighting on that. When your in a room with typical 6500 degree-kelvin florescent lighting, combined with the peak white background (paper page simulated) on the monitor, they do tend to make your eyes really have to focus much too hard.
What also helps the eye strain is if you are still using a CRT monitor, get the refresh rate on it higher than 72 hz. vertical rate. That alone is a major cause of eye strain and headaches. This is due to your eyes and brain being able to see the screens inter-scanning and blanking. I ran mine at 75hz until I got bigger screen then I could go to 90hz. Now I have flat panel screens but don't do much coding anymore, so I'm not sure what issues lie here except that I have no problems with my laptop screen and I'm on it all day long.
With that will go up substantially; the costs involved. So much so; that you are likely to balk at the price and bail on it. This is an economy killer law and someone needs to strike it down. I question the motivations behind the law in the first place. That old adage of "Follow the money" comes to mind here.
Fact is that it completely falls into the category of "charge what the public will bear". I think that was why the call it a "Free Market Economy" because someone provides the service, and you pay for the service until the point where the value isn't there anymore and begin to drop away from the service. Then they reduce prices to bring you back, and magically everyone finds this "happy medium" thing... Enough with the basic economy stuff though.
Now you also know why I cringe every time I get a spam message on my phone, and the carriers won't refund the charge because their system is open to hacking and spamming. The who mess just sucks.
While your at it then, you can side with many of the "liberals" in this country that want it to tilt almost completely into socialism by negating almost all of the constitution. Then at that point, all our freedoms are no more. I think if you were one who got into power and proposed that, they'd hustle you out of power so fast it would make your head spin.
Long live the constitution of the USA. It's ours collectively as a nation. If you don't like it's rules, go somewhere else.
Just my .02 cents
This whole thing also shows that they are in a fairly visible prospectus to challenge and over turn any and all laws related to "fair use".
If they get their way; you will only have radio and TV. Items such as VCR's, PVR's, tape decks, and anything that can record will be prohibited by law. You won't even be able to own one of these devices for personal use. This is the goal of eliminating these rights of the public to own recording equipment. They will control what you see and hear.
Damned commies.
Uummmm.... Title 18, Part 1, Chapter 47 of the United States Code, which covers anybody who "intentionally accesses a computer without authorization or exceeds authorized access"
If I read that right; it's referring to a "computer" specifically! First off, if I am accessing a WIFI connection that is OPEN, and the only place I go to is the available Internet; How is it then that I am accessing someones computer??? Secondly; How does that "exceed authorized access" especially when the connection is obviously available and fully OPEN??? Again, I'm not accessing someones computer on that connection; I'm going to the Internet.
The first statement is very specific and refers to a "computer". I'm not going after the computer. The second statement is so ambiguous, that it makes no specific associativity to the first sentence at all, much less anything else.
Who wrote the language for that law; a 5nd grader??
Well; if Verizon blocks these hierarchies, then the porn pushers will just move to the Big 8. Then those groups will be banned.
Then they will move back to traditional web site advertising. This will include hijacking users web browsers again and forcibly bringing them to these sites to make sure you SEE that 13 year old getting whatever. They will then begin to ban HTTP port 80.
What fun.
Did I not say some time back that the lawyers are greedy and the judges are now beginning to tear down their planned modus-operende to "get the cash"...
"Justice moves swiftly now that they've abolished all lawyers!". I'm waiting!
I don't agree with "flamebait", as it was just meant to be funny.
There is only one chip--Intel. There is only one chip--Intel. Thou shalt have no other chip before thee!!!
There is only one chip--Intel. There is only one chip--Intel. Thou shalt have no other chip before thee!!!
There is only one chip--Intel. There is only one chip--Intel. Thou shalt have no other chip before thee!!!
There is only one chip--Intel. There is only one chip--Intel. Thou shalt have no other chip before thee!!!
hehehe...
It's another greedy lawyer. His real interest is in covering big business and ways to make sure this "OSS"is made incompatible with current patent law. Ultimately I'm sure he's got lobbyists in Washington pushing to get legislators to want to regulate open source anything and maybe even make it illegal.
Just another damned greedy lawyer voicing is woes at OSS.
This may not work.
Fact is that Chevy only makes really really big trucks these days and they're gas hogs. People are looking for economy now and you almost can't give a way a big vehicle anymore. Now if they were to offer say a Toyota hybrid.... You'd have a full stadium and the ticket sales would be enough to not only pay for the costs incurred with the execution, but also the burial, stadium traffic control, pay off the city budget for the year, and drop a few billion off of the national debt!!!
what else would be interesting is the next incarnation of "DOOM 4" and a large majority of the enemy is a spammer. Just think of the numbers of people who would not be able to associate life and reality with a game and begin really killing spammers...
Ok; I went away there for a bit.. Now I'm back.
I'm absolutely with you on that.
The facts are that these people didn't show up in court, they really could care less what the courts do or say, and this guy likely will just move his stuff to off-shore to further obscure things. How do they intend to collect that large a sum of an award??? The law prohibits attaching any pensions or social security he might have. Any money he has gotten through all this is probably in swiss bank accounts and untouchable by the US. He's pretty much flipping the bird to the law; the judges, the government and everyone involved.
How much of this advertised speed is more or less advertising hype more than anything else??? We all know what it takes to do packet inspection and rules table lookups, so to me, this number seems a bit on the hyped up side...
Anyone else getting this same riff??
On my Compaq EVO N610c, it installed just fine. It did take a similar amount of time; nearly 2 hours, but no strangeness. At the end of it, I had to reboot so I did and it came back up and ran fine. One gig RAM and 40gb hdd. Nothing special.
It does appear however to have trashed the partitions on my external USB drive. I can't mount any of them and I'm waiting until later to test more before I conclude that removable drives are not working under SP3.
I just installed it on a duplicate machine to the one I am using now.
I did not encounter booting issues as others have complained about. The machine appears to function normally. No real visible signs of change except the Service Pack 3 identifier in the system applet.
I did have a 500gb external USB2 hard drive attached and it now appears that both partitions have been destroyed on it. I put it on another machine and looked at it, and at this point, it's unreadable. I will later try and see if I can mount it and examine under Linux.
Don't use it if you have external media!
You might be right there. I now remember scads of the SCO debacle. I still have this hint of something Microsoft was involved in... Oh well. I'm getting on in life and one of the things I need to do is put past behind and move forward..
Someone should come up with a decent WAD file then for the thing and include the entire RIAA headquarters building somewhere, and all the enemy is the RIAA lawyers!!!
Didn't Microsoft try this tactic some time back?? I'm almost sure of it but can't remember what and when. Seem to me they were trying to get the whole premise of "free software" banned on a legal level. Anyone??