I'm not sure I understand what point you are trying to make, but I do agree the whois does not work on a standard 80 column terminal. Apparently, they fired all of the experienced hackers and hired a bunch of green people who promised a bunch of profits --I don't know. It looks real ugly.
I didn't pay NSI $70 for my address to become their property. I wanted a service to distribute my information in a freely available manner. When I submitted my information to them with credit card number, in no way did they claim it was their property and they would restrict its availability. This negates the whole rationale behind my domain name. What we have here is a monopoly and they should be bypassed. But, who has the servers and money to handle their capacity? Its evil and needs to be stopped.
Here is a picture of a NT ATM. Not a place where I would place my money and conduct transactions.
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It may be illegal, but that hasn't stopped many people from having exotic pets of all kinds. If they are caught, there are always ways to accomodate the legal rules, execpt if you happen to have a big cat or something that frightens neighbors. The rule is if someone complains, you have some explaining to avoid some very stiff fines and penalties.
Its neve too cold for a penguin! If its too cold for you, there are fuzzy and cuddly penguins and can be found at linuxmall. I have a few proudly hacking away on my webcam.
Sometime in 1984, I was playing with a disk hex editor on the Apple ][ that showed comparisons between two files: one on the left, and one on the right side of the monitor. I found this very handy, but hardly considered that a novel feature. I have since seen many examples of comparing files when I was exposed to other computers. Comparing files is a natural need that would be written by any hacker in an evening. Hardly novel.
As a native American born in Southern California, this immigration crap disturbs me. What is the point in work visas and all these border laws? To exploit labor and legalize illegal labor? If someone feels this country is a nice place and wants to work to help build a better community here, I welcome the compete with our native lazy butts. Someone please enlighten me why we have people without "full citezenship" that can have all rights and property terminated when basic human freedoms wish to be expressed. I have seen people stuck in bad marriages, slaves to their spouses, just because of citizenship.
Do you lack slack, or forget your afternoon nap? There's nothing wrong with diversifying experience and some people have a problem with marrying a job. Wisdom is gained when one jumps the fence to the greener side. Its great seeing independent code warriors who decide what risks to take in furthering their goals, whatever they may be.
I'm just a happy E user since I compiled the tarballs on my Redhat 4.1 a few years ago. It was inspirational. It takes a creative person to do projects like E. If an author of a creative project decides to move, it only leads to greater opportunity. Its all GPL after all and he isn't taking his ideas with him when he moves. The code has always been shared and will live the duration of this universe...
There's something wrong with vivarin tablets. I consumed several one time along with freinds and talk about an unhappy stomach! They might have an additive to prevent abuse. Penguin mints on the other hand are some good stuff. Get a tin of those and start buzzing!
The black on white fad that you are seeing might be the results of a Microsoft study on consumers what the desktop should look like. The white was intended to have the look and feel of a genuine sheet of paper with ink displayed on your word processor. I guess companies who want to sell computers are trying to make them look like common desktop materials, such as the paperclip, pen, etc... I seem to be an odd person that I never bought into this look and feel. I have always prefered a the soft luminescent glow of a blinking cursor on a dark phosphor screen. I can do without all the busy distractions. After all, a monitor is nothing but a low powered particle accellerator. Why turn the thing on full nuke all the time anyway?
I'm no doctor, but I can tell you caffeine is a controlled substance. I was looking through one of those big fat chemical books where you can order anything made of atoms. Pure caffeine. Buy it by the kilo. You also need a pretty good darned reason to buy it in its pure form like that. They also sell chemicals known for the other end of the speed spectrum too. I wonder who would knock on my door if I tried to make an order for this stuff?
When I was trained for handling radiation sources for surveying oil wells, we had a big thing on safety and what radiation could do to a person. One case involved a technician at a poultry processing plant where the packaged chicken would pass through this room on conveyer. The doors had interlocks and the sources would close when a person would enter. Well, for some reason, the technician just had to check things out while it was running, so he defeated the interlocks, walked in, peered around the corner, and made it to the door where he collapsed. They did an autopsy on the guy to find that all his arteries had liquified. I bet if the guy snorted a few kilos of coffee, he might have made it out the door. Then again, maybe not!
I'd give anything (everything but my soul!) to listen to some of these meetings they have on campus. I hear it gets really interesting when the meetings get heated. Is it true Gates and Ballmer really scream profanity during closed door sessions? If so, I bet a fly on the wall gets the best view.
I found it interesting that the 2000 development group was defensive about its product. This would be the case in any company when the department's work is challenged. I bet they felt quite intimidated and ESR had a rude awakening by having some comments that were especially critical. It was funny that they were reported to sling mud trying to defend (Oracle.) Very revealing and not very professional. I bet the 2000 team will be watched closer by their collegues due to the funny stuff.
Unfortunately, I can't read that page. But I can tell you its easy to take an old Motorola bag phone, read the "Motorola Bible" about the test mode, and you have a scanner. Look it up on the search engine of your choice and start listening. You can also transmit and adjust power levels too. How do cellular technicians track this kind of abuse?
Needless to say, this is why I got a digital phone. It might not be secure, but its not as easy to eavesdrop! The only complaint I have is the audio quality is barely audible, especially when talking to another digital cell phone. Is the poor audio quality just my location or does it plague certain types of phones?
You are right. Most people would not understand the cleverness behind technical details of naming, etc. I seem to forget slashdot is highly mixed company.
From what I hear from the old Unix die hards, when it comes to comparing Unixen, Linux has the best feel.
Knock it off with your pets being coats. Some countries eat dogs and cats and its perfectly normal. Would you be offended if I told you about the buck that I killed this year with my SKS rifle? A gun that could have been used to kill people? Some people have different values than you do. Most of the people I work with have land and go hunting to bring back healthy food on the table for the family. Granted, I know of no one who eats canines or felines, but in some cultures that is normal.
Let me tell you about the FINE leather coat and gloves I have. I have worn them for 15 years and they still seem new. Oh, I also have a leather wrapped steering wheel in my Ford truck. Does that make me a redneck?
Speaking of cutting down whole squares of trees in California. I used to live in Costa Mesa when there was nothing but beautiful orange groves and farms. The 70's changed all that. Its the slums with high density housing the last time I saw it. That was the reason why our family left California for Kansas City. I don't know how a person can grow up in CA anymore. $500,000 for a 4 bedroom house? And they cut all the trees? Its insane. Not only is there minimum wage jobs for the high schooler, you have legalized illegal labor in CA and TX. When you talk about cutting all the trees, don't assume everyone is like California!
Trees. Sounds like politics to me. I live in Mississippi where many people own hudreds or thousands of acres of nothing but trees. Its good money to supply the paper mills out here. Cut all your trees and you just killed the value of your property. What people do is cut half in rows while the other half grows back. No one cuts all their trees! That person may be listening to political mudslinging. Damn the polititions that never have been raised on a farm.
That's great that you are not having problems. With 160MB of memory in your box, I sure hope you are not having problems with the disk swapping out.
Since you brought it up, I can tell you about my old IBM PS/2 486dx20 with 16MB running Linux and X. Its SUSE distro seems slightly slower running netscape, but it is most usable, except for compiling code on large projects. For the CPU intensive stuff, I just offload it over the net to my 464MHz Redhat Celery. You can always run Linux on old and limited hardware.
I'm not too sure what would be causing disk thrashing for the original poster, but it would be a challenge to find out.
I don't usually mess with computers at work, but we use AT&T Unix to operate the phone system. Never had a problem with it in the three years since it was installed. If Windows NT or 95 was in that locked closet, I would need a key to keep rebooting our phone system. I do not like outages of any kind. You do not expect outages on your phone and you cannot have outages on point of sale machines! Linux Is Not UniX, but it can be made damn near bulletproof.
You can always ask for help and there are great places for doing so. Complaining may be less useful for reading and may annoy. Asking for help is always much more constructive.
Last time I checked the newsgroups relating to questions, over 50% were answered in hours. I read the newsgroups, because they describe methods to solve problems in ways that I have not yet thought of. I haven't tried IRC, but I hear you can get instant help.
I am always happy to help when someone from slashdot or anywhere else asks for help. Asking for help is a good way to meet people.
Now we know who the foul mouth biggots are! Granted, I have a few unkind words about operating systems that suck, but they were outright offensive and abusive with those comments. Those comments contain no useful content and are 100% crap. You cannot reason with pointless profanity. It just annoys and serves no real purpose.
I wouldn't go that far, but I will say I haven't had luck with them. I moved down here to Mississippi to marry a sweetheart who was finishing a PhD. I tried headhunters and mass mailing my resume. The companies that headhunters returned were quite a drive or what friends told me were sweatshops. Resumes just got headhunters refering me to out of state jobs that seemed to require frequent traveling.
I gave up on the suit and tie resume job hunting shit and went to the local state employment center here. After a few weeks of checking in with them, she finally picked up the phone to call someone, "I think I have the person you are looking for." They got me what seemed like a decent job at a local manufacturing plant. I interviewed with an engineer, took the employment test and heard back a month later they wanted me to start the next day. I kept getting reviews and rewards every few months until my 40 hrs/week salary matched those of my engineering degree holding buddies.
I enjoy the hell out of my job. My resume didn't get me here, but the usual approach that any normal worker tries. I would say showing up unemployed at the employment center got me a good job. The job I have gives me 100% vesting, all the paid overtime I want, paid vacations, insurance, and job security. Its a good feeling working with older, more mature people as they don't quit, but retire or die.
About companies reading slashdot its user's web pages to become more informed: I get more visits from tide*.microsoft.com and its robots on my personal homepage than any other entity. Is there someone at Microsoft that likes me?
Makes me remember that song by Rockwell: Somebody's watching me.
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I'm not sure I understand what point you are trying to make, but I do agree the whois does not work on a standard 80 column terminal. Apparently, they fired all of the experienced hackers and hired a bunch of green people who promised a bunch of profits --I don't know. It looks real ugly.
I didn't pay NSI $70 for my address to become their property. I wanted a service to distribute my information in a freely available manner. When I submitted my information to them with credit card number, in no way did they claim it was their property and they would restrict its availability. This negates the whole rationale behind my domain name. What we have here is a monopoly and they should be bypassed. But, who has the servers and money to handle their capacity? Its evil and needs to be stopped.
Here is a picture of a NT ATM. Not a place where I would place my money and conduct transactions.
It may be illegal, but that hasn't stopped many people from having exotic pets of all kinds. If they are caught, there are always ways to accomodate the legal rules, execpt if you happen to have a big cat or something that frightens neighbors. The rule is if someone complains, you have some explaining to avoid some very stiff fines and penalties.
Its neve too cold for a penguin! If its too cold for you, there are fuzzy and cuddly penguins and can be found at linuxmall. I have a few proudly hacking away on my webcam.
Sometime in 1984, I was playing with a disk hex editor on the Apple ][ that showed comparisons between two files: one on the left, and one on the right side of the monitor. I found this very handy, but hardly considered that a novel feature. I have since seen many examples of comparing files when I was exposed to other computers. Comparing files is a natural need that would be written by any hacker in an evening. Hardly novel.
As a native American born in Southern California, this immigration crap disturbs me. What is the point in work visas and all these border laws? To exploit labor and legalize illegal labor? If someone feels this country is a nice place and wants to work to help build a better community here, I welcome the compete with our native lazy butts. Someone please enlighten me why we have people without "full citezenship" that can have all rights and property terminated when basic human freedoms wish to be expressed. I have seen people stuck in bad marriages, slaves to their spouses, just because of citizenship.
Do you lack slack, or forget your afternoon nap? There's nothing wrong with diversifying experience and some people have a problem with marrying a job. Wisdom is gained when one jumps the fence to the greener side. Its great seeing independent code warriors who decide what risks to take in furthering their goals, whatever they may be.
I'm just a happy E user since I compiled the tarballs on my Redhat 4.1 a few years ago. It was inspirational. It takes a creative person to do projects like E. If an author of a creative project decides to move, it only leads to greater opportunity. Its all GPL after all and he isn't taking his ideas with him when he moves. The code has always been shared and will live the duration of this universe...
There's something wrong with vivarin tablets. I consumed several one time along with freinds and talk about an unhappy stomach! They might have an additive to prevent abuse. Penguin mints on the other hand are some good stuff. Get a tin of those and start buzzing!
The black on white fad that you are seeing might be the results of a Microsoft study on consumers what the desktop should look like. The white was intended to have the look and feel of a genuine sheet of paper with ink displayed on your word processor. I guess companies who want to sell computers are trying to make them look like common desktop materials, such as the paperclip, pen, etc... I seem to be an odd person that I never bought into this look and feel. I have always prefered a the soft luminescent glow of a blinking cursor on a dark phosphor screen. I can do without all the busy distractions. After all, a monitor is nothing but a low powered particle accellerator. Why turn the thing on full nuke all the time anyway?
I'm no doctor, but I can tell you caffeine is a controlled substance. I was looking through one of those big fat chemical books where you can order anything made of atoms. Pure caffeine. Buy it by the kilo. You also need a pretty good darned reason to buy it in its pure form like that. They also sell chemicals known for the other end of the speed spectrum too. I wonder who would knock on my door if I tried to make an order for this stuff?
When I was trained for handling radiation sources for surveying oil wells, we had a big thing on safety and what radiation could do to a person. One case involved a technician at a poultry processing plant where the packaged chicken would pass through this room on conveyer. The doors had interlocks and the sources would close when a person would enter. Well, for some reason, the technician just had to check things out while it was running, so he defeated the interlocks, walked in, peered around the corner, and made it to the door where he collapsed. They did an autopsy on the guy to find that all his arteries had liquified. I bet if the guy snorted a few kilos of coffee, he might have made it out the door. Then again, maybe not!
I'd give anything (everything but my soul!) to listen to some of these meetings they have on campus. I hear it gets really interesting when the meetings get heated. Is it true Gates and Ballmer really scream profanity during closed door sessions? If so, I bet a fly on the wall gets the best view.
I found it interesting that the 2000 development group was defensive about its product. This would be the case in any company when the department's work is challenged. I bet they felt quite intimidated and ESR had a rude awakening by having some comments that were especially critical. It was funny that they were reported to sling mud trying to defend (Oracle.) Very revealing and not very professional. I bet the 2000 team will be watched closer by their collegues due to the funny stuff.
Unfortunately, I can't read that page. But I can tell you its easy to take an old Motorola bag phone, read the "Motorola Bible" about the test mode, and you have a scanner. Look it up on the search engine of your choice and start listening. You can also transmit and adjust power levels too. How do cellular technicians track this kind of abuse?
Needless to say, this is why I got a digital phone. It might not be secure, but its not as easy to eavesdrop! The only complaint I have is the audio quality is barely audible, especially when talking to another digital cell phone. Is the poor audio quality just my location or does it plague certain types of phones?
You are right. Most people would not understand the cleverness behind technical details of naming, etc. I seem to forget slashdot is highly mixed company.
From what I hear from the old Unix die hards, when it comes to comparing Unixen, Linux has the best feel.
Knock it off with your pets being coats. Some countries eat dogs and cats and its perfectly normal. Would you be offended if I told you about the buck that I killed this year with my SKS rifle? A gun that could have been used to kill people? Some people have different values than you do. Most of the people I work with have land and go hunting to bring back healthy food on the table for the family. Granted, I know of no one who eats canines or felines, but in some cultures that is normal.
Let me tell you about the FINE leather coat and gloves I have. I have worn them for 15 years and they still seem new. Oh, I also have a leather wrapped steering wheel in my Ford truck. Does that make me a redneck?
Speaking of cutting down whole squares of trees in California. I used to live in Costa Mesa when there was nothing but beautiful orange groves and farms. The 70's changed all that. Its the slums with high density housing the last time I saw it. That was the reason why our family left California for Kansas City. I don't know how a person can grow up in CA anymore. $500,000 for a 4 bedroom house? And they cut all the trees? Its insane. Not only is there minimum wage jobs for the high schooler, you have legalized illegal labor in CA and TX. When you talk about cutting all the trees, don't assume everyone is like California!
Trees. Sounds like politics to me. I live in Mississippi where many people own hudreds or thousands of acres of nothing but trees. Its good money to supply the paper mills out here. Cut all your trees and you just killed the value of your property. What people do is cut half in rows while the other half grows back. No one cuts all their trees! That person may be listening to political mudslinging. Damn the polititions that never have been raised on a farm.
That's great that you are not having problems. With 160MB of memory in your box, I sure hope you are not having problems with the disk swapping out.
Since you brought it up, I can tell you about my old IBM PS/2 486dx20 with 16MB running Linux and X. Its SUSE distro seems slightly slower running netscape, but it is most usable, except for compiling code on large projects. For the CPU intensive stuff, I just offload it over the net to my 464MHz Redhat Celery. You can always run Linux on old and limited hardware.
I'm not too sure what would be causing disk thrashing for the original poster, but it would be a challenge to find out.
I don't usually mess with computers at work, but we use AT&T Unix to operate the phone system. Never had a problem with it in the three years since it was installed. If Windows NT or 95 was in that locked closet, I would need a key to keep rebooting our phone system. I do not like outages of any kind. You do not expect outages on your phone and you cannot have outages on point of sale machines! Linux Is Not UniX, but it can be made damn near bulletproof.
You can always ask for help and there are great places for doing so. Complaining may be less useful for reading and may annoy. Asking for help is always much more constructive.
Last time I checked the newsgroups relating to questions, over 50% were answered in hours. I read the newsgroups, because they describe methods to solve problems in ways that I have not yet thought of. I haven't tried IRC, but I hear you can get instant help.
I am always happy to help when someone from slashdot or anywhere else asks for help. Asking for help is a good way to meet people.
Now we know who the foul mouth biggots are! Granted, I have a few unkind words about operating systems that suck, but they were outright offensive and abusive with those comments. Those comments contain no useful content and are 100% crap. You cannot reason with pointless profanity. It just annoys and serves no real purpose.
I wouldn't go that far, but I will say I haven't had luck with them. I moved down here to Mississippi to marry a sweetheart who was finishing a PhD. I tried headhunters and mass mailing my resume. The companies that headhunters returned were quite a drive or what friends told me were sweatshops. Resumes just got headhunters refering me to out of state jobs that seemed to require frequent traveling.
I gave up on the suit and tie resume job hunting shit and went to the local state employment center here. After a few weeks of checking in with them, she finally picked up the phone to call someone, "I think I have the person you are looking for." They got me what seemed like a decent job at a local manufacturing plant. I interviewed with an engineer, took the employment test and heard back a month later they wanted me to start the next day. I kept getting reviews and rewards every few months until my 40 hrs/week salary matched those of my engineering degree holding buddies.
I enjoy the hell out of my job. My resume didn't get me here, but the usual approach that any normal worker tries. I would say showing up unemployed at the employment center got me a good job. The job I have gives me 100% vesting, all the paid overtime I want, paid vacations, insurance, and job security. Its a good feeling working with older, more mature people as they don't quit, but retire or die.
About companies reading slashdot its user's web pages to become more informed: I get more visits from tide*.microsoft.com and its robots on my personal homepage than any other entity. Is there someone at Microsoft that likes me?
Makes me remember that song by Rockwell: Somebody's watching me.