Sell well? That's the whole point! If you have two kids, say a boy and a girl, buy toys, it would be an advantage to the toy market if you bought into toys that were incompatible between sexes. In other words, when you bought a masculine pc, you had to buy a feminine pc too, for your daughter. You would feel proud of your children's sexual identity and they would feel proud of the profits. To them, its marketing at work. To me, its more junk in the house.
I like the idea of a server and a few terminals for the kids to play with. But no, the industry wants a boy/girl computer, one blue, one pink, of every conceivable spinoff of every movie and cartoon to pile up on the living room floor. I'm up to my neck in crap and need to have a yard sale. Help. Free stuff. Get a good deal. Today only. Trash man comes tomorrow.
The way I see much of the controversy over nuke plants is that they directly compete with coal plants, coal mines, and the many jobs coal creates, or the more expensive alternative, petroleum fired generators. Humans have an affinity towards energy, so it looks like we will be generating it one way or another. Pick your weapon.
A coal plant is opening up 15 miles from where I live. This is good for me as my payscale suddenly shot up as they were looking for workers. Tell you the truth, I would rather have a nuke down the street. It all has to do with the air I breathe and the massive amounts of ground being dug that were a great habitat for wildlife and hunting.
Not that I'm complaining, electricity will be very cheap for manufacturing plants. Good paying jobs will be abundant and those who already are employed will see property values skyrocket. The price of land has doubled for the last few years.
Consider the atoms pretty much stable, like mousetraps with two ping pong balls on each in a large room. Throw a ball in the room and a few might set each other off. Now concentrate the atoms together into critical mass and the first ball thrown will trigger an ever growing action. Balls will be popping all over the place into a meltdown.
Well, if you roll off a hill or roll into a busy intersection, wouldn't the ball be just a huge airbag? Boing! There you go, highway volleyball! Ever see those crazy stunts where people go over Niagra Falls in a barrell? How about in a Zorb with and its spectacular view.
would blame me for anything that went wrong with her box, just because I was using it.
Oh, I forgot. Yes, my company sure did blame the users too. Anyone who had Blue Screens of Death were responsible for the network going down and must have been downloading from them porn sites. Draconian usage policies seemed to have been more convenient than educating users on acceptable usage policies.
Service packs 2,3,4, NT 4.0, 2,3,4... the blame game continues...
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NT 3.1
NT 3.5, I need to proofread.
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Joe Public shouldn't have to be as adept as Joe Linux. After all, when do you think the last time Joe Public installed Windows...
The trend I am seeing among Windows users is that anytime they encounter a problem, they think it is a hardware problem. Computer slow? Replace computer or processor. Modem not working? Replace modem (can you say winmodem?) Sound card not working? It must be the increased stability of the windows operating system and how it should run for years without crashing.
I'm not complaining. I get the "broken" hardware and build some might fine boxen out of these freebies. Linux just works.
The company I work for bought $31 million in computers from Compaq a few years back with NT 3.1 installed. Crashing. I'll give you three guesses where the blame was placed. Hardware. Faulty motherboards? So, the blame game continues and always will. I use Linux and can't blame anyone but myself. Fortunately, it works and there is no blame.
I would love to, but my copy of the G2 alpha for Linux expired yesterday and I can't spot a new one on the Real web site.
I'm not sure why this was marked offtopic, but this was the issure I faced when trying to find something under real audio's web site that would run Linux. I found the link off freshmeat for the download. Its a bloated 4.5 megabyte rpm, typical of proprietary software. Why people do not wish to use something slightly more accessable and reasonable on resources, such as mp3's is beyond me.
What can you do if your bombarded by constant ping attacks?
I'm not a sysadmin, nor do I play one on TV, but if you are getting a denial of service, contact your ISP and let them look into it. If they are incompetent pushbutton droids, change to a more enlightened localy owned service that are usually staffed by college students and other smart nerds. If even that isn't an option, well, all I can say is that your ISP only knows the source as pings can be spoofed. Leave them if they don't care about your service.
My ISP keeps web logs for about 3 to 6 hours, rotating on size. I have once put a crontab under my account with a little perl script to nslookup the addresses and have the logs of my webpage archived.
Since this script is on my own computer, I have logs of who visits, sends pings, portscans, etc. I used to have a whois search in a perl script show the user's info in the logs to make people aware of privacy.
Lately, moderators are scoring things down simply because they disagree with it.
Usually its good to have discussion and diverse viewpoints. I lately seen a rash of moderation that wants to discriminate and squelch anything they can. This is a discussion forum, not a written essay exam. Lets encourage, not step on toes. Yet, they are strict. Hostile.
I have seen many hostile moderators that seem to be carrying a bat marking anything they can redundant or flaimbait. They must be new, or just troll moderators. Perhaps there are too many posts and people are getting fustrated, but I am seeing much abuse.
they wont be rooted if Digital engineers set em up properly. i used to admin a OSF/1 box
I used to have a few OSF/1 accounts back in school when I was going for a CS and remember those to be some mighty good accounts. I would find out that hacking away would ring bells on the operator's console along with a printout of my userid. My experience was that those who used DEC (now Compaq) computers took security *very* seriously.
Its not how much Pepsi paid, but how how much are the kickbacks the responsible party is getting. They are cheap bastards. They need to lose the ability to father or mother children.
Ah, yes, the information and what can be had from a social security number. A few years ago, I did an internet search on information wholesalers (see alt.2600) and decided to try out a free demo account. Its for employers to screen potential employees and such and they stated the information provided by the demo was just representative and a demo. All that was required was a tax id and personal information for the person doing the search.
Well, I tried it out with my social security number for my credit record, driving history, etc., and the numbers and information matched exactly. I found out this was no demo, it was the real thing. I had the chance to see what I look like to the beancounters.
I think it should be everyone's responsibility to try this out and expose how freely information is sold.
The Pepsi thing was the last straw. Imagine Pepsi being a willing sponsor of no freedom or rights of students. Now that they have to wear numbers, they might as well install ankle chains on all of them. No wonder why we have violence at schools. They treat them like prisoners and intimidate anyone who wishes to think.
Now, its 100% fruit juice and milk at work and my stomach should be much happier.
What would happen if other operating systems other than those sold by Microsoft becomes popular and allows consumers to have security and privacy? Will the market for virus software and services decline? This is going to be a real interesting stock to watch if the actually do it.
So, is playing core wars now illegal? Sometimes writing malignant programs attempting evolution on one's computer (or network!) is a great way to learn about logic, memory protection, and security. If one cannot experiment in their own room on their computer legally, there will be either secrecy or a bunch of mouse pushers come next decade.
Is there a place to purtchess dvorak keyboards? Seems the only other alternative is to rip the keys off one and rearrange them and put super glue on them to get them to stick.
Here is a perfect place to start shopping for dvorak keyboards, from the cheap to the heavy duty spring click keyboards. Get one with a built in stick pointer too!
I'm not sure about Legos, but the Z80 is used in industrial controllers and has proven very reliable. I see the Z80 pop up in various products over time. The Z80 may never die.
Here are some Z80 source code for projects done back in college, including GUI with mouse, etc.
IMHO this is another example of a company doing what dejanews did.
Usually, sending compliments to people for a fine job is great. Dejanews was a different story.
Once dejanews had a email soliciting comments about their service. As it was a great service, I let them know why it was valuable to me and told them "don't change a thing!"" because it was perfect. A short time later, they did the unthinkable and trashed a fine search interface with bloated crap from hell. So much for my suggestion. I still have that email and the thanks they gave me for the compliments.
I suspect they were looking for emails of praise and saving them for later as testimonials. Dirty tricks... Why do so many commercial companies wish to screw customers?
If we are all commies , then Microsoft is the dictator .
No, freely distributable software is democracy at its finest. We get to choose, change, share or charge for it and services, but we can never restrict freedom of another. Its a wonderful concept, but a threat to a dominating company that wishes to buy up all the patents and restrict our freedom and freedom to innovate. We are not communists, but there is an evil company trying to pound us into submission.
What right does a law firm have of ownership to Linux? Lawyers are supposed to troubleshoot problems with the law that are supposed to protect, not to take advantage and lay claim to opportunities.
I feel the need to order a tasty cream pie delivered to that law firm.
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Sell well? That's the whole point! If you have two kids, say a boy and a girl, buy toys, it would be an advantage to the toy market if you bought into toys that were incompatible between sexes. In other words, when you bought a masculine pc, you had to buy a feminine pc too, for your daughter. You would feel proud of your children's sexual identity and they would feel proud of the profits. To them, its marketing at work. To me, its more junk in the house.
I like the idea of a server and a few terminals for the kids to play with. But no, the industry wants a boy/girl computer, one blue, one pink, of every conceivable spinoff of every movie and cartoon to pile up on the living room floor. I'm up to my neck in crap and need to have a yard sale. Help. Free stuff. Get a good deal. Today only. Trash man comes tomorrow.
The way I see much of the controversy over nuke plants is that they directly compete with coal plants, coal mines, and the many jobs coal creates, or the more expensive alternative, petroleum fired generators. Humans have an affinity towards energy, so it looks like we will be generating it one way or another. Pick your weapon.
A coal plant is opening up 15 miles from where I live. This is good for me as my payscale suddenly shot up as they were looking for workers. Tell you the truth, I would rather have a nuke down the street. It all has to do with the air I breathe and the massive amounts of ground being dug that were a great habitat for wildlife and hunting.
Not that I'm complaining, electricity will be very cheap for manufacturing plants. Good paying jobs will be abundant and those who already are employed will see property values skyrocket. The price of land has doubled for the last few years.
Consider the atoms pretty much stable, like mousetraps with two ping pong balls on each in a large room. Throw a ball in the room and a few might set each other off. Now concentrate the atoms together into critical mass and the first ball thrown will trigger an ever growing action. Balls will be popping all over the place into a meltdown.
Well, if you roll off a hill or roll into a busy intersection, wouldn't the ball be just a huge airbag? Boing! There you go, highway volleyball! Ever see those crazy stunts where people go over Niagra Falls in a barrell? How about in a Zorb with and its spectacular view.
would blame me for anything that went wrong with her box, just because I was using it.
Oh, I forgot. Yes, my company sure did blame the users too. Anyone who had Blue Screens of Death were responsible for the network going down and must have been downloading from them porn sites. Draconian usage policies seemed to have been more convenient than educating users on acceptable usage policies.
Service packs 2,3,4, NT 4.0, 2,3,4... the blame game continues...
NT 3.1
NT 3.5, I need to proofread.
Joe Public shouldn't have to be as adept as Joe Linux. After all, when do you think the last time Joe Public installed Windows...
The trend I am seeing among Windows users is that anytime they encounter a problem, they think it is a hardware problem. Computer slow? Replace computer or processor. Modem not working? Replace modem (can you say winmodem?) Sound card not working? It must be the increased stability of the windows operating system and how it should run for years without crashing.
I'm not complaining. I get the "broken" hardware and build some might fine boxen out of these freebies. Linux just works.
The company I work for bought $31 million in computers from Compaq a few years back with NT 3.1 installed. Crashing. I'll give you three guesses where the blame was placed. Hardware. Faulty motherboards? So, the blame game continues and always will. I use Linux and can't blame anyone but myself. Fortunately, it works and there is no blame.
I would love to, but my copy of the G2 alpha for Linux expired yesterday and I can't spot a new one on the Real web site.
I'm not sure why this was marked offtopic, but this was the issure I faced when trying to find something under real audio's web site that would run Linux. I found the link off freshmeat for the download. Its a bloated 4.5 megabyte rpm, typical of proprietary software. Why people do not wish to use something slightly more accessable and reasonable on resources, such as mp3's is beyond me.
Take a trip to rootshell for some good reading about security. Its a great site that shows what is vulnerable and what deserves attention.
What can you do if your bombarded by constant ping attacks?
I'm not a sysadmin, nor do I play one on TV, but if you are getting a denial of service, contact your ISP and let them look into it. If they are incompetent pushbutton droids, change to a more enlightened localy owned service that are usually staffed by college students and other smart nerds. If even that isn't an option, well, all I can say is that your ISP only knows the source as pings can be spoofed. Leave them if they don't care about your service.
My ISP keeps web logs for about 3 to 6 hours, rotating on size. I have once put a crontab under my account with a little perl script to nslookup the addresses and have the logs of my webpage archived.
Since this script is on my own computer, I have logs of who visits, sends pings, portscans, etc. I used to have a whois search in a perl script show the user's info in the logs to make people aware of privacy.
Lately, moderators are scoring things down simply because they disagree with it.
Usually its good to have discussion and diverse viewpoints. I lately seen a rash of moderation that wants to discriminate and squelch anything they can. This is a discussion forum, not a written essay exam. Lets encourage, not step on toes. Yet, they are strict. Hostile.
I have seen many hostile moderators that seem to be carrying a bat marking anything they can redundant or flaimbait. They must be new, or just troll moderators. Perhaps there are too many posts and people are getting fustrated, but I am seeing much abuse.
they wont be rooted if Digital engineers set em up properly. i used to admin a OSF/1 box
I used to have a few OSF/1 accounts back in school when I was going for a CS and remember those to be some mighty good accounts. I would find out that hacking away would ring bells on the operator's console along with a printout of my userid. My experience was that those who used DEC (now Compaq) computers took security *very* seriously.
Its not how much Pepsi paid, but how how much are the kickbacks the responsible party is getting. They are cheap bastards. They need to lose the ability to father or mother children.
Ah, yes, the information and what can be had from a social security number. A few years ago, I did an internet search on information wholesalers (see alt.2600) and decided to try out a free demo account. Its for employers to screen potential employees and such and they stated the information provided by the demo was just representative and a demo. All that was required was a tax id and personal information for the person doing the search.
Well, I tried it out with my social security number for my credit record, driving history, etc., and the numbers and information matched exactly. I found out this was no demo, it was the real thing. I had the chance to see what I look like to the beancounters.
I think it should be everyone's responsibility to try this out and expose how freely information is sold.
The Pepsi thing was the last straw. Imagine Pepsi being a willing sponsor of no freedom or rights of students. Now that they have to wear numbers, they might as well install ankle chains on all of them. No wonder why we have violence at schools. They treat them like prisoners and intimidate anyone who wishes to think.
Now, its 100% fruit juice and milk at work and my stomach should be much happier.
What would happen if other operating systems other than those sold by Microsoft becomes popular and allows consumers to have security and privacy? Will the market for virus software and services decline? This is going to be a real interesting stock to watch if the actually do it.
So, is playing core wars now illegal? Sometimes writing malignant programs attempting evolution on one's computer (or network!) is a great way to learn about logic, memory protection, and security. If one cannot experiment in their own room on their computer legally, there will be either secrecy or a bunch of mouse pushers come next decade.
OTOH, if the restaurant is under inspection by the health department...
Special today at the restaurant. Cockroaches.
Better visit the stand for a sip of sweet caffeinated lemonade...
Is there a place to purtchess dvorak keyboards? Seems the only other alternative is to rip the keys off one and rearrange them and put super glue on them to get them to stick.
Here is a perfect place to start shopping for dvorak keyboards, from the cheap to the heavy duty spring click keyboards. Get one with a built in stick pointer too!
Hey, the dvorak layout is not too bad. If your hands feel like pounding rocks after ten minutes at the keyboard, its something worth pursuing.
Now Dvorak, the com^Hlumnist, is another nut off the zdnet tree.
I'm not sure about Legos, but the Z80 is used in industrial controllers and has proven very reliable. I see the Z80 pop up in various products over time. The Z80 may never die.
Here are some Z80 source code for projects done back in college, including GUI with mouse, etc.
IMHO this is another example of a company doing what dejanews did.
Usually, sending compliments to people for a fine job is great. Dejanews was a different story.
Once dejanews had a email soliciting comments about their service. As it was a great service, I let them know why it was valuable to me and told them "don't change a thing!"" because it was perfect. A short time later, they did the unthinkable and trashed a fine search interface with bloated crap from hell. So much for my suggestion. I still have that email and the thanks they gave me for the compliments.
I suspect they were looking for emails of praise and saving them for later as testimonials. Dirty tricks... Why do so many commercial companies wish to screw customers?
I think I've just been outed as a commie.
If we are all commies , then Microsoft is the dictator .
No, freely distributable software is democracy at its finest. We get to choose, change, share or charge for it and services, but we can never restrict freedom of another. Its a wonderful concept, but a threat to a dominating company that wishes to buy up all the patents and restrict our freedom and freedom to innovate. We are not communists, but there is an evil company trying to pound us into submission.
What right does a law firm have of ownership to Linux? Lawyers are supposed to troubleshoot problems with the law that are supposed to protect, not to take advantage and lay claim to opportunities.
I feel the need to order a tasty cream pie delivered to that law firm.