Lastly, no one who would want a nimble shooting platform in space would have it be as asymetric as the Vipers are. Rotational about the long axis of the Viper body (fore to aft) would take for ever. The fighters of Lost in Space are the most realistic of any movie i've seen so far (IMHO)
I didn't see the mini-series, but the vipers in the oringal series often flew through a planet's atmosphere and landed on the ground. Same with the Cylons' ships. That's why I figured they were oblong with fins and wings (in the case of the Cylon ships). Actually, now that I think about it, having a small weapons platform that can go from ground to space and back again would be very useful. Plus Battlestar Galactica is something of a naval epic, so the airplane/dogfight model fits.
Knoppmyth is a fully installable Knoppix(debian) distro with mythtv. Knoppmyth is a pvr, has tv with a guide to your local cable/sat provider, weather, news, a dvd playing, an mp3 player (and indexing, by group and album, with visualizations), cd ripper with artist and title lookup, emulator frontend, and vcd player.
You can burn the iso, assemble your pvr/media machine, boot of the iso, provide a few usernames and passwords and Knoppmyth will partition and install everything you need to get MythTV running on your system including mysql, xmltv, mythtv. As a bonus you get the magic of apt-get to install almost anything else you might want. The fontend program is very nicely done and it supports remote controls and external channel changers too.
-dameron
Home theater pc... Knoppmyth.
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Also, some of us like playing video games, or having a home theatre PC, both of which are a giant pain/impossible on Linux.
Can you spell your name and remember a password? If so you can install Knoppmyth, a fully installable Knoppix(debian) distro with mythtv. Knoppmyth is a pvr, has tv with a guide to your local cable/sat provider, weather, news, a dvd playing, an mp3 player (and indexing, by group and album, with visualizations), cd ripper with artist and title lookup, emulator frontend, and vcd player.
For two years I had SBC DSL and had no problem, everything was great, good speed, same ip for over a year solid then suddenly I started getting outages, every night, between 6-10pm.
I did everything I knew to fix the problem but it always came back, almost like clockwork at the same time and ended at roughly the same time every night. When things were working the speed and stability was as I'd come to expect, when it wasn't I was basically cut off. I even let my pc sit and ping a server (one of my work servers) while I was out for town for a weekend and it still happened, so I was convinced it wasn't anything I was doing.
Eventually I called SBC and they "fixed" the problem (their explanation "Your phone line has degraded.") by halving my UL/DL speeds from UL 1.5M to 750k etc.
Everything was fine, then a couple of months later, the problem is back. Same problem, same answer, cut my UL/DL in half again to 380k. At this point I start looking for alternative services, alas none are available, and other DSL providers were out they'd be using the same crap lines/equipment that was causing the problem...
Few more months, it's baaaaack...
Suddenly I'm playing $55/month for 128k down with insufferable packet loss (i.e. no meaningful online gaming) and no recourse. Eventually my local cable company finally wired my block and now I'm back to 1.5m so the story has a happy ending for me. Not so happy an ending for SBC as they were nailed in a class action for these very problems, slower than advertised speeds, frequent interruptions, barely functioning Usenet servers...
As I'd already switched to another provider I was only due $20, but those who were still on SBC could get up to $100 in, get this, credit from SBC for DSL service! If you were so fed up with SBC that you wanted to cancel your service before the one year contract was up that $100 might go a long way toward your cancellation fee.
Given all this frustration I'll never recommend SBC to anyone.
Plus, their phone CSRs have a neverending litany of "We don't have supervisors", "I am the supervisor", or "There is no other tier of technical support available". Great tip to get to someone who knows what their doing in a tech phone tree: Lie just like they do. An (somewhat embelished) example:
CSR: "What version of Windows are you running?"
ME: "Three".
CSR: "Three?"
ME: Yeah, three.
CSR: There's no such thing as Windows 3.
ME: Yeah, there is, I'm looking at it. It's on an old 486 laptop. I've got Trumpet Winsock running and a PPOE client I wrote that used to work fine, but now just lets me connect and ping servers on my local subnet, but ever time I start up a web browser I get a password dialogue and no matter what I type it comes back with some Redback Aggregation Router configuration thingee about "Do I want to commit these changes and reset " or something like that.
Actually I was just watching an episode of BSG last night, and while the particular episode I caught wasn't good, the intro reminded me of how interesting the core storyline is in BSG:
"Their home systems destroyed by internal treachery and a race of genocidal cyborgs, the remains of humanity, a scant 6,000, flee across the galaxy in search of the ancient legend of their 13th tribe, humans who settled on a planet called Earth.
Sure, it borrows a lot from mythology and the popular (at the time) ancient astronaut theories, but as far as a storyline goes there's a lot of room for drama and action.
Of course in Hollywood today if someone pitches that plot the network says "Yeah, sounds good, but it needs tits."
P.S. I'm a musican and I lost my hard work to illegal mp3 downloads. I sold only 400 CDs and my music was downloaded thousands of times and is all over mp3 sites. I give up....I'm $10,000 in debt and everyone is enjoying my creations.......this was my thanks. It's not the Major labels that are being killed, it's people like me. Cockroaches are the last to die.
Well, Michael, you should probably stop touching children and concentrate on your music. That's very, very, very Devilish...
or nearly 2,000 years the best Western thinkers believed that the Earth was the center of the universe. That's a long time to be wrong about something so big.
A far more precise synopsis of the situation would sound something like:
"After the Protestant Reformation, a dramatic increast in dogma and religious orthodoxy in the Catholic church prevented scientists from openly discussing, advocating, or debating a heliocentric model. An "immobile" sun contradicted several passages in the Bible (most notably in Joshua). Many scientists, dating back to antiquity, understood the likelyhood of a heliocentric cosmology, but during the early part of the 17th century the Catholic church attempted to supress the theory. The effects on science in Catholic countries lingered for some time."
To throw out:
When Galileo originally proposed a heliocentric model of the Universe, he was criticized for his ideas, because "As any fool can see, the sun goes around the Earth..."
is a bit naive. Stillman Drake wrote an excellent piece on Galileo that I recommend. What happened to Galileo hinges more on renaissance politics than the merits of his theory.
He really did get the shaft, but you'd think that somone as intelligent as Galileo, once he -started- going blind that maybe he'd back off staring at the sun? Nope.
Why 56k seems to be the limit on dialup speeds. I remember a good deal of speed ramping in the late 80s early 90s having used everything from a 300 baud KayPro modem to 1200 baud, 2400, 9600, 14.4, 28.8 and 56k but then nothing much since then. Diamond MM had a "shotgun" modem with two 56k connections, but that wasn't practical.
So, if anyone knows, why 56k and not more, and is there any research into anything beyond 56K for dialup?
I know it's not technically ironic, but man, wouldn't you like to be a fly on the wall, or see the look on a lead programmer's face in Banglore when he's told his job is being "outsourced?"
Seems they've found someone who will do the job for even less scratch. I suddenly find my sympathy gauge tapped out...
"Mikkke Schmidt", as he called himself, has plagued alt.sport.baseball.phila-phillies for some years now. Have a read and imagine the FBI busting your favorite troll...
Apparently he's not the sharpest spoon in the drawer as he not only "email bombed" the Phillies management with rants such as this one, but also, obviously, posted the exact material to Usenet.
Read some, there's some quality trollin' ('though not as refined as the infamous "cordial boy" or King Tut).
If it's installed by default it's what most people will use. If a media player plays an MP3 file, a video, does streaming content that's pretty much all most people want from a media player. MS has been shown to have a monopoly in the desktop OS market. They abused that monopoly to squish alternative browsers and they're trying to do the same thing to media players.
If the EU forces MS to take out WMP, then they should also remove Notepad, Calculator, MS Paint, Address Book, Hyperterminal... the list goes on.
Well, that'd be a good start and hints at how long this has been going on and the depth of the problem. Suppose you work for a software company that provides an interesting utility, like a zip program or a telnet client. Should MS decide to add such a program to the OS, like they did with a zip utility in recent incarnations, your business could dry up and die because you never got a chance to compete. Suddenly 90% of computers sold can already do what your program does.
What if you'd purchased a car from MS and it came with a free television. Normally that's not too bad a deal, and sometimes you see things like this in real life so you might thing there's nothing wrong with that. Now suppose that there was only one source of cars and pretty much everybody who purchased a car had to buy it from Microsoft and got that free tv. Now imagine that you make competing televisions.
Now imagine you purchase the car, got the free tv, and now suddenly your VCR doesn't work, you need a Microsoft VCR.
That's why it's important. I don't want to have to buy MS brand toilet paper one day to make my ass compatible.
I'm not talking about any of SCO's sales prior to the point they started distributing GPLed software under a different license.
How is purchasing a GPLed product under the new SCO license different from walking down the street and buying a bunch of copied DVDs that have "Matrix Reloaded" written on them in magic marker?
In each case copyrighted material was distributed without a licence from the copyright holder, in each case the purchaser should be able to tell the difference between legitimate and illegitimate material, especially considering how much press this is getting.
SCO is trying to steal GNU/Linux (or all GPLed software for that matter). Imagine if I'd copied WinXP and was selling it as my own OS. If company X purchased 10,000 copies of MyOS with only my personal guarantee (wink, wink) that I actually owned it, can't company X be punished?
If someone pays SCO for GPLed software under SCO's new license isn't he knowingly receiving illicit copies of the software? Shouldn't someone tell them perhaps? And couldn't the copyright holders demand the software be returned or destroyed at the very least?
Suppose Linus/RMS and whoever else decide to sue SCO for distributing their software in violation of the GPL.
Could Linux/RMS etc. go after SCO customers who purchased said software if they could show that the customers (MS) knew they were in effect receiving stolen property?
As long as we're playing "Intellectual Property" games, shouldn't knowingly receiving "stolen" property be a crime as well?
Interesting thought. I am not an IP lawyer, that's why I'm masking.
Applications indeed start pretty fast and especially some third party statically-linked apps (e.g. Lost Marble's Moho or Blender) load immediately. I have never seen Moho load so fast, not even on BeOS (which was its original platform).
Really putting that distro through the paces huh...:)
Boot. (modprobe tulip (or xxx) if you have too) dhcpcd cd/var wget http://server/partimag (binary for platform) chmod u+x partimag./partimag
As log as you have a box to act as a server with enough space on it, it'll produce a compressed image that works fine for NT/XP/2K. I suppose you could do this with things like Knoppix, or build your own boot cd, but the Gentoo live cd boots very quickly and has had drivers for every network card I've tried to use. You have to specify a new SID for each machine MS box (http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/newsid.s html) but that's trivial and quite fast on modern hardware, and the program can be included on the m odel machine.
We used Imagecast for a few years, and we tried Bootit NG too, (which is fine, but costs money and has a quite a few steps to get an image out right, but is a fine partitioning tool with a decent GUI if you need that) but partimage is probably going to do us for a while.
Free as in beer. Specify a SID, randomly generate a SID or clone SID a SID anyone? I've successfully used this utility to restore functionality to an NT server that had gone belly-up by copying the data files to another server, changing the name of the server and specifying the same SID.
Theres a lot of room to play with NT/XP/2K security with a proggy like Newsid.
At almost every ballpark and venue in the US you can park and eat, tailgate as it were. Some places, (the hellhole at Chavez Ravine called Dodger Stadium) ban tailgating.
However, even at Dodger games there's nothing to stop you from bringing in your own food and drinks, (no alcohol 'though) and watching the game. I've brought whole buckets of chicken and half a dozen bottles of bottled water into the game, no problem.
Most sporting events last around three hours or less from start to finish. If you can't manage to eat before or wait 'til after that's too bad. The fact is, if the teams started making less money charging higher prices for concessions they'd lower the price. As I said before, the people that are willing to pay the higher price are the ones to blame. Bitching about it and paying the inflated prices only makes it worse.
Here's a link to all possible permutations of this argument, from rec.sport.baseball, and really this info, and a mini-less on supply/demand should probalby be included in the RSB faq...
Is that player salary has a direct impact on ticket prices, concessions, parking, or merchandise.
Prices for those things are driven my supply and demand. The reason a Coke costs $5 at a ball game is because people will pay that price. Tickets likewise are driven by what people are willing to pay.
Teams may justify raising ticket prices because of player salaries, but if it became unprofitable the pricing model would change.
I'm sick of hearing about greedy pro sports players, they, with very rare exceptions, get paid what the market will bear for their skills. Owners know this, players know this, arbitrators know this, GMs too. Fans don't, they're blinded by the size of the contracts floating between the teams and the players, and instinctively react as 0x20 did, that greedy players are driving up the cost of the game.
If you want to blame anyone for the high price of concessions and tickets to pro sports events, blame the owners for taking their product and marketing it to a much more affluent audience, and blame the bastard who can't be bothered to tailgate or bring his own food to the game, but instead drops the cash on the most expensive seats, the season tickets, or the overpriced ($7 12 oz. cups of Bud at Dodger games this year) concessions.
The but "code" in question could be very innocent looking, something simple and near obvious. It doesn't have to be the fabled missing kerberos bit info or anything like that.
Imagine, in eighteen months time, MS coming out and saying "hey, these lines of code are pretty much quote for quote from our netbios broadcast routine, it even has the same comments..."
That's all it would take to let them transparently toss around tens of millions of dollars in legal fees. By showing their source they make this idea seem like it could happen. Of couse the real conspiracy nut in me says that they'd plan it out from day one, buying the soul of some small kernel hacker and actually coauthoring his contribution.
Microsoft is allowing, via its "Shared Source Licensing Plan" for companies to take a look at selects portions of the windows source code.
Call me a nut, but I've half a mind to believe that MS is floating this whole SCO mess as a trial balloon, to probe the defenses of the open source community, and plans to have its' own code "stolen" and incorporated into Linux.
That way they can move from a "Cold War" by proxy to a direct attack on Linux and open source.
And more tin foil: who do you suppose might be responsible for the root backdoor that someone tried to slip into the kernel recently...?
Anything that shows any improvement in the survival rates for pancreatic cancer would be fantastic. Currently pancreatic cancer is basically a death sentence, with a 5% survival rate at 5 years.
I know it's a cliche, and a total farkism, but every time I read about something like "Chickens Prefer Beautiful Humans" I can't help but think perhaps some of our scientists could find a little better use for their time.
I just have to say that preying on the stupid just doesn't sound like that big of a crime to me. At worse you've deprived them of subscribing to the Weekly World News and giving their money to televangelists. Actually, considering how many people get to rip off these people while giving out tax deductions, I'm thinking we should have the entirety of regular spammers be punished by serving as human anti-spam bots for really slow mail servers.
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I didn't see the mini-series, but the vipers in the oringal series often flew through a planet's atmosphere and landed on the ground. Same with the Cylons' ships. That's why I figured they were oblong with fins and wings (in the case of the Cylon ships). Actually, now that I think about it, having a small weapons platform that can go from ground to space and back again would be very useful. Plus Battlestar Galactica is something of a naval epic, so the airplane/dogfight model fits.
-dameron
Knoppmyth is a fully installable Knoppix(debian) distro with mythtv. Knoppmyth is a pvr, has tv with a guide to your local cable/sat provider, weather, news, a dvd playing, an mp3 player (and indexing, by group and album, with visualizations), cd ripper with artist and title lookup, emulator frontend, and vcd player.
You can burn the iso, assemble your pvr/media machine, boot of the iso, provide a few usernames and passwords and Knoppmyth will partition and install everything you need to get MythTV running on your system including mysql, xmltv, mythtv. As a bonus you get the magic of apt-get to install almost anything else you might want. The fontend program is very nicely done and it supports remote controls and external channel changers too.
-dameron
Can you spell your name and remember a password? If so you can install Knoppmyth, a fully installable Knoppix(debian) distro with mythtv. Knoppmyth is a pvr, has tv with a guide to your local cable/sat provider, weather, news, a dvd playing, an mp3 player (and indexing, by group and album, with visualizations), cd ripper with artist and title lookup, emulator frontend, and vcd player.
-dameron
For two years I had SBC DSL and had no problem, everything was great, good speed, same ip for over a year solid then suddenly I started getting outages, every night, between 6-10pm.
I did everything I knew to fix the problem but it always came back, almost like clockwork at the same time and ended at roughly the same time every night. When things were working the speed and stability was as I'd come to expect, when it wasn't I was basically cut off. I even let my pc sit and ping a server (one of my work servers) while I was out for town for a weekend and it still happened, so I was convinced it wasn't anything I was doing.
Eventually I called SBC and they "fixed" the problem (their explanation "Your phone line has degraded.") by halving my UL/DL speeds from UL 1.5M to 750k etc.
Everything was fine, then a couple of months later, the problem is back. Same problem, same answer, cut my UL/DL in half again to 380k. At this point I start looking for alternative services, alas none are available, and other DSL providers were out they'd be using the same crap lines/equipment that was causing the problem...
Few more months, it's baaaaack...
Suddenly I'm playing $55/month for 128k down with insufferable packet loss (i.e. no meaningful online gaming) and no recourse. Eventually my local cable company finally wired my block and now I'm back to 1.5m so the story has a happy ending for me. Not so happy an ending for SBC as they were nailed in a class action for these very problems, slower than advertised speeds, frequent interruptions, barely functioning Usenet servers...
Read about it here.
As I'd already switched to another provider I was only due $20, but those who were still on SBC could get up to $100 in, get this, credit from SBC for DSL service! If you were so fed up with SBC that you wanted to cancel your service before the one year contract was up that $100 might go a long way toward your cancellation fee.
Given all this frustration I'll never recommend SBC to anyone.
Plus, their phone CSRs have a neverending litany of "We don't have supervisors", "I am the supervisor", or "There is no other tier of technical support available". Great tip to get to someone who knows what their doing in a tech phone tree: Lie just like they do. An (somewhat embelished) example:
CSR: "What version of Windows are you running?"
ME: "Three".
CSR: "Three?"
ME: Yeah, three.
CSR: There's no such thing as Windows 3.
ME: Yeah, there is, I'm looking at it. It's on an old 486 laptop. I've got Trumpet Winsock running and a PPOE client I wrote that used to work fine, but now just lets me connect and ping servers on my local subnet, but ever time I start up a web browser I get a password dialogue and no matter what I type it comes back with some Redback Aggregation Router configuration thingee about "Do I want to commit these changes and reset " or something like that.
CSR: Uh, let me put you on hold for a minute.
That's how you find the supervisor...
-dameron
Actually I was just watching an episode of BSG last night, and while the particular episode I caught wasn't good, the intro reminded me of how interesting the core storyline is in BSG:
"Their home systems destroyed by internal treachery and a race of genocidal cyborgs, the remains of humanity, a scant 6,000, flee across the galaxy in search of the ancient legend of their 13th tribe, humans who settled on a planet called Earth.
Sure, it borrows a lot from mythology and the popular (at the time) ancient astronaut theories, but as far as a storyline goes there's a lot of room for drama and action.
Of course in Hollywood today if someone pitches that plot the network says "Yeah, sounds good, but it needs tits."
-dameron
P.S. I'm a musican and I lost my hard work to illegal mp3 downloads. I sold only 400 CDs and my music was downloaded thousands of times and is all over mp3 sites. I give up....I'm $10,000 in debt and everyone is enjoying my creations.......this was my thanks. It's not the Major labels that are being killed, it's people like me. Cockroaches are the last to die.
Well, Michael, you should probably stop touching children and concentrate on your music. That's very, very, very Devilish...
-dameron
Oh God did I just type that??? =)
Weaselmancer
Pah!
If you were a real nerd you'd know that recent incarnations of Cthulhu (the game) use the d20 rules.
Feel better now...
-dameron
or nearly 2,000 years the best Western thinkers believed that the Earth was the center of the universe. That's a long time to be wrong about something so big.
A far more precise synopsis of the situation would sound something like:
"After the Protestant Reformation, a dramatic increast in dogma and religious orthodoxy in the Catholic church prevented scientists from openly discussing, advocating, or debating a heliocentric model. An "immobile" sun contradicted several passages in the Bible (most notably in Joshua). Many scientists, dating back to antiquity, understood the likelyhood of a heliocentric cosmology, but during the early part of the 17th century the Catholic church attempted to supress the theory. The effects on science in Catholic countries lingered for some time."
To throw out:
When Galileo originally proposed a heliocentric model of the Universe, he was criticized for his ideas, because "As any fool can see, the sun goes around the Earth..."
is a bit naive. Stillman Drake wrote an excellent piece on Galileo that I recommend. What happened to Galileo hinges more on renaissance politics than the merits of his theory.
He really did get the shaft, but you'd think that somone as intelligent as Galileo, once he -started- going blind that maybe he'd back off staring at the sun? Nope.
-dameron
Why 56k seems to be the limit on dialup speeds. I remember a good deal of speed ramping in the late 80s early 90s having used everything from a 300 baud KayPro modem to 1200 baud, 2400, 9600, 14.4, 28.8 and 56k but then nothing much since then. Diamond MM had a "shotgun" modem with two 56k connections, but that wasn't practical.
So, if anyone knows, why 56k and not more, and is there any research into anything beyond 56K for dialup?
-dameron
Was I the only one who thought "What is an article about some white dude's self image doing on Slashdot...?
-dameron
I know it's not technically ironic, but man, wouldn't you like to be a fly on the wall, or see the look on a lead programmer's face in Banglore when he's told his job is being "outsourced?"
Seems they've found someone who will do the job for even less scratch. I suddenly find my sympathy gauge tapped out...
-dameron
Some samples of his "work".
The charges.
Apparently he's not the sharpest spoon in the drawer as he not only "email bombed" the Phillies management with rants such as this one, but also, obviously, posted the exact material to Usenet.
Read some, there's some quality trollin' ('though not as refined as the infamous "cordial boy" or King Tut).
-dameron
If it's installed by default it's what most people will use. If a media player plays an MP3 file, a video, does streaming content that's pretty much all most people want from a media player. MS has been shown to have a monopoly in the desktop OS market. They abused that monopoly to squish alternative browsers and they're trying to do the same thing to media players.
If the EU forces MS to take out WMP, then they should also remove Notepad, Calculator, MS Paint, Address Book, Hyperterminal... the list goes on.
Well, that'd be a good start and hints at how long this has been going on and the depth of the problem. Suppose you work for a software company that provides an interesting utility, like a zip program or a telnet client. Should MS decide to add such a program to the OS, like they did with a zip utility in recent incarnations, your business could dry up and die because you never got a chance to compete. Suddenly 90% of computers sold can already do what your program does.
What if you'd purchased a car from MS and it came with a free television. Normally that's not too bad a deal, and sometimes you see things like this in real life so you might thing there's nothing wrong with that. Now suppose that there was only one source of cars and pretty much everybody who purchased a car had to buy it from Microsoft and got that free tv. Now imagine that you make competing televisions.
Now imagine you purchase the car, got the free tv, and now suddenly your VCR doesn't work, you need a Microsoft VCR.
That's why it's important. I don't want to have to buy MS brand toilet paper one day to make my ass compatible.
-dameron
I'm not talking about any of SCO's sales prior to the point they started distributing GPLed software under a different license.
How is purchasing a GPLed product under the new SCO license different from walking down the street and buying a bunch of copied DVDs that have "Matrix Reloaded" written on them in magic marker?
In each case copyrighted material was distributed without a licence from the copyright holder, in each case the purchaser should be able to tell the difference between legitimate and illegitimate material, especially considering how much press this is getting.
SCO is trying to steal GNU/Linux (or all GPLed software for that matter). Imagine if I'd copied WinXP and was selling it as my own OS. If company X purchased 10,000 copies of MyOS with only my personal guarantee (wink, wink) that I actually owned it, can't company X be punished?
If someone pays SCO for GPLed software under SCO's new license isn't he knowingly receiving illicit copies of the software? Shouldn't someone tell them perhaps? And couldn't the copyright holders demand the software be returned or destroyed at the very least?
Can "They said they owned it" really stand up?
-dameron
Suppose Linus/RMS and whoever else decide to sue SCO for distributing their software in violation of the GPL.
Could Linux/RMS etc. go after SCO customers who purchased said software if they could show that the customers (MS) knew they were in effect receiving stolen property?
As long as we're playing "Intellectual Property" games, shouldn't knowingly receiving "stolen" property be a crime as well?
Interesting thought. I am not an IP lawyer, that's why I'm masking.
-dameron
Applications indeed start pretty fast and especially some third party statically-linked apps (e.g. Lost Marble's Moho or Blender) load immediately. I have never seen Moho load so fast, not even on BeOS (which was its original platform).
:)
Really putting that distro through the paces huh...
-dameron
A whole stack of Gentoo boot cds. Place in drive.
/var ./partimag
s html) but that's trivial and quite fast on modern hardware, and the program can be included on the m odel machine.
Boot.
(modprobe tulip (or xxx) if you have too)
dhcpcd
cd
wget http://server/partimag (binary for platform)
chmod u+x partimag
As log as you have a box to act as a server with enough space on it, it'll produce a compressed image that works fine for NT/XP/2K. I suppose you could do this with things like Knoppix, or build your own boot cd, but the Gentoo live cd boots very quickly and has had drivers for every network card I've tried to use. You have to specify a new SID for each machine MS box (http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/newsid.
We used Imagecast for a few years, and we tried Bootit NG too, (which is fine, but costs money and has a quite a few steps to get an image out right, but is a fine partitioning tool with a decent GUI if you need that) but partimage is probably going to do us for a while.
-dameron
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/newsid.sh tml
Free as in beer. Specify a SID, randomly generate a SID or clone SID a SID anyone? I've successfully used this utility to restore functionality to an NT server that had gone belly-up by copying the data files to another server, changing the name of the server and specifying the same SID.
Theres a lot of room to play with NT/XP/2K security with a proggy like Newsid.
-dameron
At almost every ballpark and venue in the US you can park and eat, tailgate as it were. Some places, (the hellhole at Chavez Ravine called Dodger Stadium) ban tailgating.
However, even at Dodger games there's nothing to stop you from bringing in your own food and drinks, (no alcohol 'though) and watching the game. I've brought whole buckets of chicken and half a dozen bottles of bottled water into the game, no problem.
Most sporting events last around three hours or less from start to finish. If you can't manage to eat before or wait 'til after that's too bad. The fact is, if the teams started making less money charging higher prices for concessions they'd lower the price. As I said before, the people that are willing to pay the higher price are the ones to blame. Bitching about it and paying the inflated prices only makes it worse.
Here's a link to all possible permutations of this argument, from rec.sport.baseball, and really this info, and a mini-less on supply/demand should probalby be included in the RSB faq...
link
-dameron
Is that player salary has a direct impact on ticket prices, concessions, parking, or merchandise.
Prices for those things are driven my supply and demand. The reason a Coke costs $5 at a ball game is because people will pay that price. Tickets likewise are driven by what people are willing to pay.
Teams may justify raising ticket prices because of player salaries, but if it became unprofitable the pricing model would change.
I'm sick of hearing about greedy pro sports players, they, with very rare exceptions, get paid what the market will bear for their skills. Owners know this, players know this, arbitrators know this, GMs too. Fans don't, they're blinded by the size of the contracts floating between the teams and the players, and instinctively react as 0x20 did, that greedy players are driving up the cost of the game.
If you want to blame anyone for the high price of concessions and tickets to pro sports events, blame the owners for taking their product and marketing it to a much more affluent audience, and blame the bastard who can't be bothered to tailgate or bring his own food to the game, but instead drops the cash on the most expensive seats, the season tickets, or the overpriced ($7 12 oz. cups of Bud at Dodger games this year) concessions.
-dameron
The but "code" in question could be very innocent looking, something simple and near obvious. It doesn't have to be the fabled missing kerberos bit info or anything like that.
Imagine, in eighteen months time, MS coming out and saying "hey, these lines of code are pretty much quote for quote from our netbios broadcast routine, it even has the same comments..."
That's all it would take to let them transparently toss around tens of millions of dollars in legal fees. By showing their source they make this idea seem like it could happen. Of couse the real conspiracy nut in me says that they'd plan it out from day one, buying the soul of some small kernel hacker and actually coauthoring his contribution.
I know I'm paranoid, but we are talking MS here.
-dameron
Microsoft is allowing, via its "Shared Source Licensing Plan" for companies to take a look at selects portions of the windows source code.
Call me a nut, but I've half a mind to believe that MS is floating this whole SCO mess as a trial balloon, to probe the defenses of the open source community, and plans to have its' own code "stolen" and incorporated into Linux.
That way they can move from a "Cold War" by proxy to a direct attack on Linux and open source.
And more tin foil: who do you suppose might be responsible for the root backdoor that someone tried to slip into the kernel recently...?
-dameronx
Anything that shows any improvement in the survival rates for pancreatic cancer would be fantastic. Currently pancreatic cancer is basically a death sentence, with a 5% survival rate at 5 years.
I know it's a cliche, and a total farkism, but every time I read about something like "Chickens Prefer Beautiful Humans" I can't help but think perhaps some of our scientists could find a little better use for their time.
-dameron
Clearchannel.
-dameron
I just have to say that preying on the stupid just doesn't sound like that big of a crime to me. At worse you've deprived them of subscribing to the Weekly World News and giving their money to televangelists. Actually, considering how many people get to rip off these people while giving out tax deductions, I'm thinking we should have the entirety of regular spammers be punished by serving as human anti-spam bots for really slow mail servers.
-dameron
-dameron