So this must be pure science fiction? And this research is also fiction, then? If not, then laser energy can superheat air and cause sound problems. Why would it be so ridiculous for me to think a laser the size of a basketball hoop might not have the same effect? (Of course, if I had RTFA more carefully, I might have seen the energy reference -- you're right, it's small-scale.)
Why does air have to be turned into "superhot plasma" to make a sonic boom? A supersonic jet doesn't superheat air, per se, it displaces it. A nighthawk doesn't superheat the air, but produces a sonic boom with its tailfeathers.
And since when did anyone say anything about outer space? The event is happening in Colorado. (Not far from outer space, actually, but...)
And you don't have to be a jerk about how incredibly knowledgeable you are -- we get it without the barbs.
Wonder what kind of sound effects it will produce. If the beam is as wide as a basketball hoop, and if the intensity heats/displaces the air in the space through which it travels... Could we expect a sonic boom when the thing is suddenly shut off?!
This is, after all, what one hears when a lightning bolt strikes.
Darl does NOT deserve ANY respect -- or SEX
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Nature has a way of dealing with this. The "cooperative" species are selected to survive. Sex is designed that way. Nature built the "idea" of cooperation into it. The Shakers* disavowed sex. Today, there are virtually no Shakers.
Dude, the Soloport website sucks bigtime. Very unprofessional.
Oh, that? Was developed my some guys from India. They wanted it to match someone else's sens of color. But I admit, the graphics could use an upgrade. But I can't remember the password to my site management account.
Can you help me?
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Honest, I don't know any of my passwords. If someone were to ask me for my password, I'd have to first find a QWERTY keyboard, sit down, place both hands in the right position on the keys and start typing into a text editor. The pattern I type is sort of a rhythm and can be typed very quickly.
I've been accused (Solaris Sys Ad) of tricking the computer into not needing a password for my login name -- because I type it is so quickly, it seems like I've just typed some random gibberish (which I sort of have). Keeps lookers guessing, too. My typical passwords are 12-18 characters in length -- but they seem a lot shorter;-)
As you've no doubt guessed by now, I love this method. I can also "memorize" dozens of unique passwords and never seem to forget one -- even one I haven't used in many months! When I see passwords like "password7", I just smile; Seems to me, mine are just as easy to remember.
Yes, you may have to run up credit cards and eat bread & water for months, but here's what's really important: Customers
Every single work day, dedicate 9:30 - 11:30 AM to nothing but cold calls [ok, I hear your moaning...] Or have your S.O. do it -- if s/he has a less threatening voice.
Google "cold calling" and learn the best techniques, on-line -- they do work. Do calls every day! Fill out a spreadsheet with who you're going to call the next day and, just like successful aerobics, get up in the morning and do it without thinking about it. Use a similar spreadsheet to track who you've called and call again the next month. And the month after that.
Eventually, you'll turn those calls into appointments, you'll turn the appointments into sales, and you'll turn the sales into (life-long?) clients. Eventually you'll be paying all your bills, on time. Eventually you'll be paying down your debt and even saving a little for retirement. Eventually, you'll be eating out in style, again. Eventually, you will not need to do any cold calling!
We do about 20 calls a day, and a day doesn't go by that I don't get at least one appointment. Sometimes it's someone who's rather friendly or curious. So I go the next day and introduce myself in person and ask a slew of questions about their business. I don't tell them anything about mine unless they ask -- then I keep it to just one sentence worth of info. and get back to them.
After about 4-6 "appointments", I make a sale. If I do a great job the first time, the first sale can lead to many, many more. A client tends to return to the one person s/he knows. They rarely let another geek into their sphere, unless there's a good reason.
I also think it's good to "spread the wealth". So for other geeks I trust with my clients, I throw work their way as much as possible. Clients like to know there's a "hit-by-truck" backup for your services.
Remember how hard your first real job was in IT? Took you a while to get to real "success", right? This is no difference, except you're having to sell to several "bosses" instead of just one [cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-assed, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spineless, worm-headed sack of monkey shit] Holy shit! Where's the Tylenol...
up2date now use yum and apt repository to retrieve package (you can change them in your/etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources), from any repository you want, including non-redhat repository. So you don't need the rhn service anymore...
Thanks! Terrific help. (I went the long route, already, and installed Synaptic -- another nice choice).
Ok, sorry for not seeing the "one question per post" thing. Guess it was a result of my knee-jerk reaction at the chance to ask/flame RH -- 'cause I'm just so pissed!
I'm not asking for much. Since I've already switched to Fedora Core, I've noticed that up2date still/already works with Fedora. What struck me was that there was no sign-up process! The packages downloaded without a hitch. Will this service continue forever? If your plan is to discontinue up2date support for Fedora, why?! Why not just keep charging for a RHN-like service?
I have at least a half-dozen entitlements -- faithfully renewed each year. I've offered a few of my paid-for entitlements to clients, for free, as part of my service. My plan has been to expand this to more of my clients in the near future. But now, I feel stuck.
These are mom & pop shops (in the dozens) who will NEVER be able to afford your Enterprise offer. They wouldn't know how to keep their Red Hat, back-office server up-to-date if it meant saving their business. I make a living by saving these people from hours and hours of servicing Microsoft patches, updates and malware. If you will not be effectively supporting the SOHO market (including my clients), what do you recommend?!
SOHOs know "Red Hat". I will have to teach them "Mandrake", "SuSE", or perhaps maybe not so much "Novell", instead. I believe today's SOHOs are tomorrow's Enterprise buyers. What do you believe?
Look, this is just one troll feeding off another troll's (OSNews') hot air. Have Fedora on my laptop (only PC I could spare) and it's a 3150H Averatec, at that! Conclusion?
Fedora just rocks!
Here's a hint for newbs: Install EVERYTHING. Yes, I know, it's over 5Gb, but who cares, these days? You will not have anything missing;-) and no dependencies to worry about. My Canon A70 just worked right out of the chute through USB, etc.
Frankly I have great hopes for Fedora. I had a growing number of misgivings about RedHat and their current direction; I think freeing up a group that's more geek-oriented and less PHB-oriented is the right move.
If you're making a living the Microsoft Way, you're bias is theirs. The only way to be un-biased is to make your living using any available "tool", using Sun, BSD's, Microsoft, Apple and others, equally.
In your article, "Linux's Hit Men", the last statement reads, "Such a pity, comrade.", which I assume is a reference to several of Microsoft's nervous apologists describing the GPL as "Communist" -- quite indicative of Daniel Lyons' singular source of information.
However, I would simply like to retort, thus: The GPL is as much about Communism as is the phrase "of the people, by the people and for the people" (to quote Abraham Lincoln).
The United States, by the way, was not founded on the principles of Capitalism, any more than it was founded on Communism. It was founded on the simple principles of freedom. These freedoms do allow Capitalism to flourish, but let's not confuse cause with effect.
Why do I defend the GPL? For the same reason I defend the nation "of the people, by the people and for the people". It affords me the liberty to pursue success! With the GPL, I am guaranteed the right to make enormous amounts of money, if I so choose. With the GPL I can build whole businesses around a software base that can not be usurped by a monopolist.
And I do. I make a six-figure income because of the GPL. Many other businesses are thriving in the GPL environment. Before the GPL we were easily crushed by giants the size of IBM and Microsoft. Now we have the freedom to pursue success, on our own terms.
I find it strange that your organization would buy (or sell?) the notion that the GPL as something tantamount to Communism. In reality, it's the best thing that's happened to Capitalism since the US Constitution!
Yeah, I know. I'm kind of too fond of my own sig. Whatever...
I'm just curious why my spam lately seems to just have weird random junk in the subject line, I actually find it sort of amusing because some of the randomness reminds me of tourette's syndrome.
I have tourette's SHIT syndrome, you insensitive BITCH clod!
Argh!!! It's "Sculley"! "Scully" is the "Jones" of the county of Kork, Ireland (i.e. the correct spelling). Sculley's ancestors didn't bother to explain the proper spelling to the folks on Ellis Island, apparently.
Just put a new installation through it's paces. Nice work! It is faster. Actually (just started it again to check), it's DAMN faster! In fact it seems everything's sped up a bit -- e.g. menus.
Also tried the PDF exporter and brought the copy up in Mozilla (using the Adobe's reader for Linux). Yep. Looks like a real PDF to me. Haven't tried the MySQL interface, yet, but am excited to get away from the proprietary one.
Speaking of "predict", I reckon the Closed Source vs Open Source arena we have, today, is much like the Closed Architecture vs the Open Architecture hardware arena of the past (ironic that IBM started this, then tried to re-neg -- remember the Charlie Chaplin ads?).
Back then, we didn't have the World Wide Web, so one had to read about the goings on of that market battle in the trade papers. But I bet history is, once again, repeating itself. This time it's about software, not hardware, of course. Makes sense that it's taken longer to get the software battle under way because hardware, well, just has to come first -- no hardware, no software possible.
But the past is interesting to me because of my (strange?) belief that we can probably predict the ultimate outcome and peer into the future a bit, by looking into the past. But, I can't remember how the last battle went (I was too young to care much, fresh out of college).
BTW, I really like how things turned out. At the time I was a real Motorola fan -- wished that the most ubiquitous desktop hardware hadn't gone little-endian and had shared stack/heap/program space (what a pain it was/is to write firmware for Intel chips vs Motorola!!!). However, what I like, now is paying next to nothing for seemingly endless increases in power!
So, what about the past? Anyone remember the hardware "Open Architecture" battles that went on? Are we closely repeating our technology history? Did anyone get as bent out of shape (as I feel over SCO) toward the "wrong side" at the time? Did we win?;-)
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I hear Darl's sister is kinda cute.
Yeah, perhaps. Just don't show us the clip where she kisses her own brother -- no thank you.
So this must be pure science fiction? And this research is also fiction, then? If not, then laser energy can superheat air and cause sound problems. Why would it be so ridiculous for me to think a laser the size of a basketball hoop might not have the same effect? (Of course, if I had RTFA more carefully, I might have seen the energy reference -- you're right, it's small-scale.)
Why does air have to be turned into "superhot plasma" to make a sonic boom? A supersonic jet doesn't superheat air, per se, it displaces it. A nighthawk doesn't superheat the air, but produces a sonic boom with its tailfeathers.
And since when did anyone say anything about outer space? The event is happening in Colorado. (Not far from outer space, actually, but...)
And you don't have to be a jerk about how incredibly knowledgeable you are -- we get it without the barbs.
Wonder what kind of sound effects it will produce. If the beam is as wide as a basketball hoop, and if the intensity heats/displaces the air in the space through which it travels... Could we expect a sonic boom when the thing is suddenly shut off?!
This is, after all, what one hears when a lightning bolt strikes.
Nature has a way of dealing with this. The "cooperative" species are selected to survive. Sex is designed that way. Nature built the "idea" of cooperation into it. The Shakers* disavowed sex. Today, there are virtually no Shakers.
Darl is a business masturbator.
*a religious sect related to today's Quakers.
Dude, the Soloport website sucks bigtime. Very unprofessional.
Oh, that? Was developed my some guys from India. They wanted it to match someone else's sens of color. But I admit, the graphics could use an upgrade. But I can't remember the password to my site management account.
Can you help me?
Honest, I don't know any of my passwords. If someone were to ask me for my password, I'd have to first find a QWERTY keyboard, sit down, place both hands in the right position on the keys and start typing into a text editor. The pattern I type is sort of a rhythm and can be typed very quickly.
;-)
I've been accused (Solaris Sys Ad) of tricking the computer into not needing a password for my login name -- because I type it is so quickly, it seems like I've just typed some random gibberish (which I sort of have). Keeps lookers guessing, too. My typical passwords are 12-18 characters in length -- but they seem a lot shorter
As you've no doubt guessed by now, I love this method. I can also "memorize" dozens of unique passwords and never seem to forget one -- even one I haven't used in many months! When I see passwords like "password7", I just smile; Seems to me, mine are just as easy to remember.
Just hope I don't someday encouter a Dvorak!
Yes, you may have to run up credit cards and eat bread & water for months, but here's what's really important: Customers
Every single work day, dedicate 9:30 - 11:30 AM to nothing but cold calls [ok, I hear your moaning...] Or have your S.O. do it -- if s/he has a less threatening voice.
Google "cold calling" and learn the best techniques, on-line -- they do work. Do calls every day! Fill out a spreadsheet with who you're going to call the next day and, just like successful aerobics, get up in the morning and do it without thinking about it. Use a similar spreadsheet to track who you've called and call again the next month. And the month after that.
Eventually, you'll turn those calls into appointments, you'll turn the appointments into sales, and you'll turn the sales into (life-long?) clients. Eventually you'll be paying all your bills, on time. Eventually you'll be paying down your debt and even saving a little for retirement. Eventually, you'll be eating out in style, again. Eventually, you will not need to do any cold calling!
We do about 20 calls a day, and a day doesn't go by that I don't get at least one appointment. Sometimes it's someone who's rather friendly or curious. So I go the next day and introduce myself in person and ask a slew of questions about their business. I don't tell them anything about mine unless they ask -- then I keep it to just one sentence worth of info. and get back to them.
After about 4-6 "appointments", I make a sale. If I do a great job the first time, the first sale can lead to many, many more. A client tends to return to the one person s/he knows. They rarely let another geek into their sphere, unless there's a good reason.
I also think it's good to "spread the wealth". So for other geeks I trust with my clients, I throw work their way as much as possible. Clients like to know there's a "hit-by-truck" backup for your services.
Remember how hard your first real job was in IT? Took you a while to get to real "success", right? This is no difference, except you're having to sell to several "bosses" instead of just one [cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-assed, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spineless, worm-headed sack of monkey shit] Holy shit! Where's the Tylenol...
Nice Flash video, on this page, of the thing.
(There's a link at the bottom of the article, but it's broken unless you remove the "www.")
What would Fred and Willma think?
MSN:
34 pancakes
41 waffles
232 frogs
695 sky
3117 tree
Goooooogle - said "...about xxx,xxx"
791,000 pancakes
412,000 waffles
640,000 frogs
20,700,000 sky
37,600,000 tree
Which proves Microsoft hates pancakes, waffles, frogs, the sky and trees. Bastards!
It gets 148 hits for windows+server
up2date now use yum and apt repository to retrieve package (you can change them in your /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources), from any repository you want, including non-redhat repository. So you don't need the rhn service anymore...
Thanks! Terrific help. (I went the long route, already, and installed Synaptic -- another nice choice).
Uh... I've had to ask plenty of Sys Ads "Is it plugged in?" ;-)
Ok, sorry for not seeing the "one question per post" thing. Guess it was a result of my knee-jerk reaction at the chance to ask/flame RH -- 'cause I'm just so pissed!
I'm not asking for much. Since I've already switched to Fedora Core, I've noticed that up2date still/already works with Fedora. What struck me was that there was no sign-up process! The packages downloaded without a hitch. Will this service continue forever? If your plan is to discontinue up2date support for Fedora, why?! Why not just keep charging for a RHN-like service?
I have at least a half-dozen entitlements -- faithfully renewed each year. I've offered a few of my paid-for entitlements to clients, for free, as part of my service. My plan has been to expand this to more of my clients in the near future. But now, I feel stuck.
These are mom & pop shops (in the dozens) who will NEVER be able to afford your Enterprise offer. They wouldn't know how to keep their Red Hat, back-office server up-to-date if it meant saving their business. I make a living by saving these people from hours and hours of servicing Microsoft patches, updates and malware. If you will not be effectively supporting the SOHO market (including my clients), what do you recommend?!
SOHOs know "Red Hat". I will have to teach them "Mandrake", "SuSE", or perhaps maybe not so much "Novell", instead. I believe today's SOHOs are tomorrow's Enterprise buyers. What do you believe?
Look, this is just one troll feeding off another troll's (OSNews') hot air. Have Fedora on my laptop (only PC I could spare) and it's a 3150H Averatec, at that! Conclusion?
;-) and no dependencies to worry about. My Canon A70 just worked right out of the chute through USB, etc.
Fedora just rocks!
Here's a hint for newbs: Install EVERYTHING. Yes, I know, it's over 5Gb, but who cares, these days? You will not have anything missing
Next step, go get Synaptic
Frankly I have great hopes for Fedora. I had a growing number of misgivings about RedHat and their current direction; I think freeing up a group that's more geek-oriented and less PHB-oriented is the right move.
Belief always starts with the wallet...
If you're making a living the Microsoft Way, you're bias is theirs. The only way to be un-biased is to make your living using any available "tool", using Sun, BSD's, Microsoft, Apple and others, equally.
Guess that makes me a real big Linux biggot!
You misspelled *IIS*...
Click here if you're over 18 years of age:
Sharps at it...
Haven't seen Solitair crash, once.
Go A-Calss!!!
I'm just curious why my spam lately seems to just have weird random junk in the subject line, I actually find it sort of amusing because some of the randomness reminds me of tourette's syndrome.
I have tourette's SHIT syndrome, you insensitive BITCH clod!
Argh!!! It's "Sculley"! "Scully" is the "Jones" of the county of Kork, Ireland (i.e. the correct spelling). Sculley's ancestors didn't bother to explain the proper spelling to the folks on Ellis Island, apparently.
Just put a new installation through it's paces. Nice work! It is faster. Actually (just started it again to check), it's DAMN faster! In fact it seems everything's sped up a bit -- e.g. menus.
Also tried the PDF exporter and brought the copy up in Mozilla (using the Adobe's reader for Linux). Yep. Looks like a real PDF to me. Haven't tried the MySQL interface, yet, but am excited to get away from the proprietary one.
FWIW, YMMV
I predicted that.
;-)
Speaking of "predict", I reckon the Closed Source vs Open Source arena we have, today, is much like the Closed Architecture vs the Open Architecture hardware arena of the past (ironic that IBM started this, then tried to re-neg -- remember the Charlie Chaplin ads?).
Back then, we didn't have the World Wide Web, so one had to read about the goings on of that market battle in the trade papers. But I bet history is, once again, repeating itself. This time it's about software, not hardware, of course. Makes sense that it's taken longer to get the software battle under way because hardware, well, just has to come first -- no hardware, no software possible.
But the past is interesting to me because of my (strange?) belief that we can probably predict the ultimate outcome and peer into the future a bit, by looking into the past. But, I can't remember how the last battle went (I was too young to care much, fresh out of college).
BTW, I really like how things turned out. At the time I was a real Motorola fan -- wished that the most ubiquitous desktop hardware hadn't gone little-endian and had shared stack/heap/program space (what a pain it was/is to write firmware for Intel chips vs Motorola!!!). However, what I like, now is paying next to nothing for seemingly endless increases in power!
So, what about the past? Anyone remember the hardware "Open Architecture" battles that went on? Are we closely repeating our technology history? Did anyone get as bent out of shape (as I feel over SCO) toward the "wrong side" at the time? Did we win?