One thing that pisses me off, however, is that every time I want to download something with bit torrent I have to open up Internet Explorer.
Why is that? I've been using BitTorrent with Mozilla for several weeks now, and it works great! Just set up the MIME-type (and file extension) correctly and it should work fine!
Another great tool that deserves a look (besides those already mentioned) is PMD. I use PMD at work to find all sorts of cruft that can be cleaned out of older Java sources. It can be run inside your favourite IDE (to highlight the offending lines) or as an ANT task (generating a report in XML or HTML). Generally I've found it to be a great help, and the coders have been very responsive to my (many) feature suggestions and bug tickets. Most of the things it's found have been general cleanups (ie unused variables or imports), but it also helped find a number of bugs in our code too.
There was no bust. What is this I'm hearing about a bust? There was no bust. The infidels are committing suicide on the gates of Silicon Valley. Everything you are hearing are all LIES, LIES, LIES! I triple-guarantee you that there was no bust in Silicon Valley.
RAID-5 only requires 3 disks, although you can use more if you want better data protection.
I get the feeling that you understand how RAID-5 works, but your statement is misleading.
With RAID-5 it stores parity data across the array for each piece of information stored. So to store data that would fill N drives, you need N+1 drives for the array (1 drive extra for the parity info).
Adding drives won't protect your data any more (although hot standbys are nice to have). RAID-5 fails if I lose two drives at once. On a 3-drive array, that would mean I'd have to lose 66% of my drives at once to lose my data. On a 10-drive array I'd have to lose only 20% of my drives to lose my data. Having the hot standby drive would be great, because the chances of two drives failing simultaneously are usually low, so hopefully the hot standby would be synched before another drive goes.
A better solution would be to use striping and mirroring together, for maximum redundancy. Costs more, but a lot safer.
I'm curious, but from reading the mailing lists I wasn't able to find an answer easily...
What if I have cable and satellite? Can it handle both at the same time? (ie, get listings for both services and choose the appropriate tuner card for each)?
You say: Lets focus our resources on developing more efficient ways of killing people! then ... what a McDonalds Certified Food Specialist is to fine cuisine
Here's what I get in my Java console when launching the applet in Mozilla:
APPLET tag missing CODE parameter.
java.lang.NullPointerException: name at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.getResourceAsStream(A ppletClassLoader.java:322) at sun.applet.AppletPanel$2.run(AppletPanel.java:575) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at sun.applet.AppletPanel.createApplet(AppletPanel.ja va:571) at sun.plugin.AppletViewer.createApplet(AppletViewer. java:1778) at sun.applet.AppletPanel.runLoader(AppletPanel.java: 496) at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(AppletPanel.java:293) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:536)
APPLET tag missing CODE parameter.
java.lang.NullPointerException: name
at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.getResourceAsStream(A ppletClassLoader.java:322)
at sun.applet.AppletPanel$2.run(AppletPanel.java:575)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at sun.applet.AppletPanel.createApplet(AppletPanel.ja va:571)
at sun.plugin.AppletViewer.createApplet(AppletViewer. java:1778)
at sun.applet.AppletPanel.runLoader(AppletPanel.java: 496)
at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(AppletPanel.java:293)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:536)
load: class cpad.class not found.
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: cpad.class
at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.findClass(AppletClass Loader.java:153)
at sun.plugin.security.PluginClassLoader.findClass(Pl uginClassLoader.java:168)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:2 99)
at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.loadClass(AppletClass Loader.java:114)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:2 55)
at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.loadCode(AppletClassL oader.java:506)
at sun.applet.AppletPanel.createApplet(AppletPanel.ja va:567)
at sun.plugin.AppletViewer.createApplet(AppletViewer. java:1778)
at sun.applet.AppletPanel.runLoader(AppletPanel.java: 496)
at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(AppletPanel.java:293)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:536)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: open HTTP connection failed.
at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.getBytes(AppletClassL oader.java:252)
at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.access$100(AppletClas sLoader.java:42)
at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader$1.run(AppletClassLoad er.java:143)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.findClass(AppletClass Loader.java:140)... 10 more
It seems simple enough. What we are experiencing here is a reversal of an issue
Canadians have had to deal with in the height of the dot-com hype...
Many, many talented IT workers, doctors and other skilled labourers were moving down south, because the jobs were there and the same jobs were paying more. Now, the tables have turned. The employers seem to have the upper hand, and the jobs are returning here. True, I don't earn as much as someone with an equivalent job in the U.S. (ie: I earn the same amount in Canadian dollars as someone in the U.S. would earn in U.S. dollars).
I hate to say "that's life", but that's what it is. I didn't move south, even though I had considered it. I stayed put in Toronto, earning less, but I am now rewarded with somewhat improved (arguably) job security. I've had the same job for the last three years, since I left school. Bad or good, the world economy is certainly changing things around a lot.
You're absolutely correct. Tomcat is not (and will likely never be) an EJB container. It's a very nice Servlet container, though...
However, once Tomcat's installed, it wouldn't be a big leap to then install JBoss to work in tandem with Tomcat, providing those missing EJB container services. It seems like a very nice package.
Hardly innovative. The Gravis Ultrasound was doing all of that long before the AWE32 hit the market.
Man I LOVED that card! I own 3 of them (the original, upgraded to 1 meg). For a long while, I tried to keep using that card. I had a machine where I had the GUS and a SB in simultaneously, configured so that all MIDI output went to the GUS and all effects went through the Sound Blaster. The output from one went into the Line In to the other, so that the audio came out mixed.
No card I've found to date is able to match the quality of the MIDI output on that old GUS. Their patchset was truly awesome. I enjoy being able to use programs that can still use those old patchsets, albeit in software now. Using MIDI composition tools was a dream, and unfortunately neither my Sound Blaster nor my MIDI keyboard are able to reproduce the quality sound that I had 10 years ago with the GUS.
I recently tried to play some of my old games (Doom, Descent, etc) on my newer hardware. Man do they ever sound *awful*! I feel like we've really taken a huge step backwards when Gravis went out of the sound card business.
Only reasons I'm not still using the card? Only two:
-lack of support. The DirectSound drivers never worked right, and drivers were only semi-working on Windows 95 or 98 (never on NT). Again, I'm talking about the classic, not the PnP card. However, there is excellent Linux support for the card, thank goodness.
-it's ISA. My computer does not have any ISA slots. This, I suppose, is a much bigger problem than the above.
He's on a mission so secret, even he doesn't know about it.
One of my favourite movies. Stars Bill Murray, who's supposed to be taking part in a 'reality' spy play, but he accidentally ends up in the real thing. Hilarious!
Meecrusufft Tu Booy Cunnecteex Tu Inter Serfer Cunsuleedeshun Merket Ecqooeesishun tu be-a unnuoonced Thoorsdey
By Poola Ruuney, CRN
Redmund, Vesh.
11:28 EM IST Ved., Feb. 19, 2003
Meecrusufft pluns tu teke-a a geeunt leep intu zee serfer cunsuleedeshun spece-a thees veek by unnuoonceeng zee ecqooeesishun ooff furtooel serfer sufftvere-a cumpuny Cunnecteex.
Zee sufftvere-a geeunt, vheech is ixpected tu furmelly unfeeel zee deel Thoorsdey, veell use-a zee technulugy tu elloo coostumers tu cerfe-a oooot moolteeple-a perteeshuns oon a seengle-a Intel-besed serfer, ellooeeng zeem tu roon moolteeple-a instunces ooff a seengle-a oopereteeng system und moolteeple-a vurklueds.
"Zeey see-a a merket in serfer cunsuleedeshun und zeey vunt a peeece-a ooff it," seeed oone-a suoorce-a femeelier veet zee deel.
Cunnecteex, vheech is preefetely held und ves fuoonded in 1988, prufeedes furtooeleezeshun sufftvere-a fur Veendoos-besed cumpooteeng. Lest fell, it loonched a prudooct celled Furtooel Serfer thet ooffffers un interpreese-a-cless furtooeleezeshun sulooshun fur Veendoos-besed serfers. Zee technulugy hes beee in beta testeeng, und Meecrusufft is ixpected tu prudoocteeze-a it und sheep it leter thees yeer effter reeguruoos testeeng.
Furtooel Serfer is a neteefe-a Veendoos-besed serfer eppleeceshun thet inebles coostumers tu roon a veede-a runge-a ooff serfer oopereteeng systems incloodeeng Veendoos, Leenoox, Uneex, OoS/2 und DOS, cuncoorrently oon a seengle-a physeecel serfer, veethin isuleted furtooel mecheenes.
Cunnecteex elsu mekes Furtooel PC fur Veendoos, Furtooel PC fur Mec und Furtooel PC fur OoS/2, vheech elloos coostumers tu roon moolteeple-a oopereteeng systems oon a PC.
CRN furst vrute-a ebuoot Meecrusufft's iffffurts tu integrete-a sufftvere-a perteeshuning in Veendoos serfer lest spreeng.
"Meecrusufft hes respunded tu a need coostumers hefe-a esked fur," seeed oone-a suoorce-a elsu femeelier veet zee deel. "It veell prufeede-a serfer cunsuleedeshun, sufftvere-a deestribooshun und better defelupment, und zeey ere-a mufeeng tu eddress thet."
Suoorces femeelier veet zee iffffurt seeed zee ecqooeesishun ooff zee technulugy veell ineble-a Meecrusufft tu meke-a its Veendoos Serfer mure-a cumpeteetife-a veet pupooler serfer cunsuleedeshun pletffurms sooch es IBM's zSereees und heegh-ind Uneex mecheenes. IBM's zSereees, vheech roons its oovn prupreeetery meeenffreme-a oopereteeng system vheele-a elsu ellooeeng zee depluyment ooff thuoosunds ooff Leenoox furtooel mecheenes roonneeng vurklueds oon a seengle-a sefer, is beeeng edupted by Vell Street furms mufeeng tu Leenoox und oozeer coostumers luukeeng tu mexeemize-a zee fooll resuoorces ooff zeeur systems.
Zee Cunnecteex technulugy veell elloo coostumers tu roon moolteeple-a vurklueds oon a seengle-a PC und serfer, thoos inebleeng zee fooll uteelizeshun ooff ell system resuoorces oon a Penteeoom-besed PC und heegh-ind serfers,a deefffficoolt chellenge-a und un oobstecle-a tu noo PC und serfer poorcheses, suoorces seeed. It veell elsu elloo cumpuneees tu meke-a zee meegreshun prucess ieseeer seence-a zeey cun roon moolteeple-a instunces ooff zee Veendoos oopereteeng system oon a seengle-a PC und fereeuoos ferseeuns ooff Veendoos serfer sufftvere-a oon Intel serfers.
Feenelly, zee technulugy, vheech is ixpected tu be-a integreted intu zee Veendoos cleeent und serfer femeely, veell ineble-a coostumers tu depluy test eppleeceshuns oon PCs und serfers veethuoot interroopteeng zee nurmel oopereshun ooff ixeesting eppleeceshuns. Bork Bork Bork!
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By Meeke-a Megee-a: Setoordey 15 Febrooery 2003, 09:51
MICROSOFT IS UNFOLDING sumetheeng it cells zee Penny Bleck pruject in vheech peuple-a sendeeng imeeels meeght hefe-a tu pey fur zee preefilege-a.
Meecrusufft cleeems in un erteecle-a oon its veb seete-a thet zee "Penny Bleck" pruject vunts tu redooce-a spem by mekeeng senders pey.
In zee seme-a erteecle-a, Meecrusufft seys it is cuntempleteeng deefffferent veys a sender meeght pey, incloodeeng "pleeen oold cesh", CPOo cycles, memury cycles und Tooreeng tests.
Zee furm hes elreedy poot tugezeer furmel unelyses ooff a CPOo besed scheme-a vheech it cells "a plooseeble-a memury besed fooncshun". It elsu seys it knoos hoo tu implement Tooreeng tests und knoos hoo tu issooe-a a teecket serfer.
Zee teecket serfer idea vuoold issooe-a tukens fur a noomber ooff imeeel messeges vheech vuoold elloo receepients tu cell zee serfeece-a und cuncel zee imeeel.
Meecrusufft seeed it is vurkeeng oon "flesheeng oooot zee deseegn" und "ergooeeng ebuoot zee mereets ooff zee fereeuoos chellenge-a schemes".
Boot ve-a soospect uny ettempts by zee Fule-a tu intrudooce-a Penny Bleck vuoold leed tu a stempede-a fur zee neerest ixeet veet muny users seeeeng Penny Red, insteed.*
* MEYBE NOT becoose-a it is sooch a bed idea, per se-a, boot du ve-a vunt Meecrusufft tu edmeenister it?
Veendoos XP, vheech hes beee merketed by Meecrusufft es "zee must secoore-a ferseeun ifer," hes beee fuoond tu hefe-a a flev su bune-a-heeded thet it renders pessvurds ineffffecteefe-a es a meuns ooff keepeeng peuple-a oooot ooff yuoor PC.
Reeder Tuny DeMerteenu elerted me-a tu zee prublem, vheech ell edmeenistreturs ooff Veendoos XP mecheenes shuoold immedeeetely teke-a tu heert:
Unyune-a veet a Veendoos 2000 CD cun buut up a Veendoos XP bux und stert zee Veendoos 2000 Recufery Cunsule-a, a truoobleshuuteeng prugrem.
Veendoos XP zeen elloos zee feesitur tu ooperete-a es Edmeenistretur veethuoot a pessvurd, ifee iff zee Edmeenistretur eccuoont hes a strung pessvurd.
Zee feesitur cun elsu ooperete-a in uny ooff zee oozeer user eccuoonts thet mey be-a present oon zee XP mecheene-a, ifee iff thuse-a eccuoonts hefe-a pessvurds.
Unbeleeefebly, zee feesitur cun cupy feeles frum zee herd deesk tu a fluppy deesk oor oozeer remufeble-a medeea - sumetheeng ifee un Edmeenistretur is nurmelly prefented frum dueeng vhee useeng zee Recufery Cunsule-a.
Thees prublem is unreleted tu a feetoore-a ooff XP thet elloos un Edmeenistretur tu set up ootumeteec lugun vhee zee Recufery Cunsule-a is used. Ifee veethuoot zee Regeestry intry thet inebles thees, XP is foolnereble-a. (Fur inffu oon thet feetoore-a, see-a sooppurt.meecrusufft.cum/?sceed=kb;in-us;312149.)
Veendoos 2000, ooff cuoorse-a, duesn't elloo Recufery Cunsule-a users tu eccess a herd dreefe-a veethuoot a pessvurd, iff oone-a prefeeuoosly ixeested.
I nuteeffied fuoor Meecrusufft ixecooteefes ooff zee XP flev veeks egu, boot hefee't yet receeefed un ooffffeeciel respunse-a. Zeere-a's nu Knooledge-a Bese-a erteecle-a ebuoot it, und zeere-a mey nut ifee be-a a guud sulooshun tu zee prublem.
Vhee I'fe-a spukee veet Meecrusufft secooreety prus ebuoot seemiler prublems in zee pest, zeey'fe-a refferred me-a tu a cumpuny puleecy thet seys, "Iff a bed gooy hes unrestreected physeecel eccess tu yuoor cumpooter, it's nut yuoor cumpooter unymure-a."
Thet's ell vell und guud - boot zee fect remeeens thet Veendoos 2000 duesn't elloo unyune-a veet un oold CD tu get pessvurd-free-a eccess, und Veendoos XP dues.
My recummendeshun: Iff yuoo use-a XP mecheenes in oopee speces, poot zee PCs beheend a lucked duur oor poot a luck oon zee PCs zeemselfes. Zee bed gooys knoo ebuoot thees flev, und it's joost oone-a mure-a theeng fur zee guud gooys tu prutect egeeenst.
Tu send me-a mure-a inffurmeshun ebuoot thees, oor tu send me-a a teep oon uny oozeer soobject, i-meeel me-a et Breeun@BreeunsBoozz.cum veet "teep" in zee soobject.
I am proud and privileged to have been a part of this. I got an email from Hakon just a few days ago, asking if they could use my JavaScript encheferizer (ported from someone else's Java version) on "one of their pages". I had no idea what they intended to do with it, but nevertheless said sure! No problem.
I'm rolling on the floor laughing my ass off now! Haha! You're my heroes!
I don't know about most people, but the outage affected customers of CIBC Bank in Canada, who couldn't withdraw their cash from many machines throughout Ontario (the news said Toronto only, but it affected some of my family and friends in other areas too).
Being a customer of a different bank (TD Canada Trust), I was not affected.
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One thing that pisses me off, however, is that every time I want to download something with bit torrent I have to open up Internet Explorer.
Why is that? I've been using BitTorrent with Mozilla for several weeks now, and it works great! Just set up the MIME-type (and file extension) correctly and it should work fine!
Another great tool that deserves a look (besides those already mentioned) is PMD. I use PMD at work to find all sorts of cruft that can be cleaned out of older Java sources. It can be run inside your favourite IDE (to highlight the offending lines) or as an ANT task (generating a report in XML or HTML). Generally I've found it to be a great help, and the coders have been very responsive to my (many) feature suggestions and bug tickets. Most of the things it's found have been general cleanups (ie unused variables or imports), but it also helped find a number of bugs in our code too.
There was no bust. What is this I'm hearing about a bust? There was no bust. The infidels are committing suicide on the gates of Silicon Valley. Everything you are hearing are all LIES, LIES, LIES! I triple-guarantee you that there was no bust in Silicon Valley.
RAID-5 only requires 3 disks, although you can use more if you want better data protection.
I get the feeling that you understand how RAID-5 works, but your statement is misleading.
With RAID-5 it stores parity data across the array for each piece of information stored. So to store data that would fill N drives, you need N+1 drives for the array (1 drive extra for the parity info).
Adding drives won't protect your data any more (although hot standbys are nice to have). RAID-5 fails if I lose two drives at once. On a 3-drive array, that would mean I'd have to lose 66% of my drives at once to lose my data. On a 10-drive array I'd have to lose only 20% of my drives to lose my data. Having the hot standby drive would be great, because the chances of two drives failing simultaneously are usually low, so hopefully the hot standby would be synched before another drive goes.
A better solution would be to use striping and mirroring together, for maximum redundancy. Costs more, but a lot safer.
I'm curious, but from reading the mailing lists I wasn't able to find an answer easily...
What if I have cable and satellite? Can it handle both at the same time? (ie, get listings for both services and choose the appropriate tuner card for each)?
Interesting (coincidence?) that the QOTD I'm reading at the bottom of this page says:
Man's horizons are bounded by his vision.
The Microsoft and Linux icons on the same topic... what an unholy combination! I thought I'd never see the day.
Who's going to be the first to post a link to a Borgified Tux?
You say:
... what a McDonalds Certified Food Specialist is to fine cuisine
Lets focus our resources on developing more efficient ways of killing people!
then
I think you have you've found your answer
Sounds like someone at NASA got a little carried away with their new toy
Update your JRE [sun.com]
To what, exactly? I get the same error. My console says:
Java(TM) Plug-in: Version 1.4.1_02
Using JRE version 1.4.1_02 Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM
Here's what I get in my Java console when launching the applet in Mozilla:
A ppletClassLoader.java:322)) e Method)a va:571). java:1778): 496)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:536)
A ppletClassLoader.java:322)
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e Method)
a va:571)
. java:1778)
: 496)
s Loader.java:153)
l uginClassLoader.java:168)
2 99)
s Loader.java:114)
2 55)
L oader.java:506)
a va:567)
. java:1778)
: 496)
L oader.java:252)
s sLoader.java:42)
d er.java:143)
e Method)
s Loader.java:140) ... 10 more
APPLET tag missing CODE parameter.
java.lang.NullPointerException: name
at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.getResourceAsStream(
at sun.applet.AppletPanel$2.run(AppletPanel.java:575
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Nativ
at sun.applet.AppletPanel.createApplet(AppletPanel.j
at sun.plugin.AppletViewer.createApplet(AppletViewer
at sun.applet.AppletPanel.runLoader(AppletPanel.java
at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(AppletPanel.java:293)
APPLET tag missing CODE parameter.
java.lang.NullPointerException: name
at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.getResourceAsStream(
at sun.applet.AppletPanel$2.run(AppletPanel.java:575
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Nativ
at sun.applet.AppletPanel.createApplet(AppletPanel.j
at sun.plugin.AppletViewer.createApplet(AppletViewer
at sun.applet.AppletPanel.runLoader(AppletPanel.java
at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(AppletPanel.java:293)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:536)
load: class cpad.class not found.
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: cpad.class
at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.findClass(AppletClas
at sun.plugin.security.PluginClassLoader.findClass(P
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:
at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.loadClass(AppletClas
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:
at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.loadCode(AppletClass
at sun.applet.AppletPanel.createApplet(AppletPanel.j
at sun.plugin.AppletViewer.createApplet(AppletViewer
at sun.applet.AppletPanel.runLoader(AppletPanel.java
at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(AppletPanel.java:293)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:536)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: open HTTP connection failed.
at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.getBytes(AppletClass
at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.access$100(AppletCla
at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader$1.run(AppletClassLoa
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Nativ
at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.findClass(AppletClas
It seems simple enough. What we are experiencing here is a reversal of an issue Canadians have had to deal with in the height of the dot-com hype...
Many, many talented IT workers, doctors and other skilled labourers were moving down south, because the jobs were there and the same jobs were paying more. Now, the tables have turned. The employers seem to have the upper hand, and the jobs are returning here. True, I don't earn as much as someone with an equivalent job in the U.S. (ie: I earn the same amount in Canadian dollars as someone in the U.S. would earn in U.S. dollars).
I hate to say "that's life", but that's what it is. I didn't move south, even though I had considered it. I stayed put in Toronto, earning less, but I am now rewarded with somewhat improved (arguably) job security. I've had the same job for the last three years, since I left school. Bad or good, the world economy is certainly changing things around a lot.
You're absolutely correct. Tomcat is not (and will likely never be) an EJB container. It's a very nice Servlet container, though...
However, once Tomcat's installed, it wouldn't be a big leap to then install JBoss to work in tandem with Tomcat, providing those missing EJB container services. It seems like a very nice package.
Hardly innovative. The Gravis Ultrasound was doing all of that long before the AWE32 hit the market.
Man I LOVED that card! I own 3 of them (the original, upgraded to 1 meg). For a long while, I tried to keep using that card. I had a machine where I had the GUS and a SB in simultaneously, configured so that all MIDI output went to the GUS and all effects went through the Sound Blaster. The output from one went into the Line In to the other, so that the audio came out mixed.
No card I've found to date is able to match the quality of the MIDI output on that old GUS. Their patchset was truly awesome. I enjoy being able to use programs that can still use those old patchsets, albeit in software now. Using MIDI composition tools was a dream, and unfortunately neither my Sound Blaster nor my MIDI keyboard are able to reproduce the quality sound that I had 10 years ago with the GUS.
I recently tried to play some of my old games (Doom, Descent, etc) on my newer hardware. Man do they ever sound *awful*! I feel like we've really taken a huge step backwards when Gravis went out of the sound card business.
Only reasons I'm not still using the card? Only two:
-lack of support. The DirectSound drivers never worked right, and drivers were only semi-working on Windows 95 or 98 (never on NT). Again, I'm talking about the classic, not the PnP card. However, there is excellent Linux support for the card, thank goodness.
-it's ISA. My computer does not have any ISA slots. This, I suppose, is a much bigger problem than the above.
He's on a mission so secret, even he doesn't know about it.
One of my favourite movies. Stars Bill Murray, who's supposed to be taking part in a 'reality' spy play, but he accidentally ends up in the real thing. Hilarious!
dots and vertical lines representing 0's and 1's, which spell out my wife's initials in binary (in 5-bit letters).
Dude - you turned your wife into a bar code! My fiancee would kill me if I ever tried that!
must... refrain from making jokes... mark of the beast...
(sorry. I was almost successful)
I'm still waiting for the Bork Edition. Anyone know what the status is on that?
RedHat Linux ME
RedHat Linux XP
RedHat Linux 200x Professional
RedHat Linux .NET
I see lots more possible indications of crap products besides the word 'Enterprise'.
Meecrusufft Tu Booy Cunnecteex Tu Inter Serfer Cunsuleedeshun Merket
Ecqooeesishun tu be-a unnuoonced Thoorsdey
By Poola Ruuney, CRN
Redmund, Vesh.
11:28 EM IST Ved., Feb. 19, 2003
Meecrusufft pluns tu teke-a a geeunt leep intu zee serfer cunsuleedeshun spece-a thees veek by unnuoonceeng zee ecqooeesishun ooff furtooel serfer sufftvere-a cumpuny Cunnecteex.
Zee sufftvere-a geeunt, vheech is ixpected tu furmelly unfeeel zee deel Thoorsdey, veell use-a zee technulugy tu elloo coostumers tu cerfe-a oooot moolteeple-a perteeshuns oon a seengle-a Intel-besed serfer, ellooeeng zeem tu roon moolteeple-a instunces ooff a seengle-a oopereteeng system und moolteeple-a vurklueds.
"Zeey see-a a merket in serfer cunsuleedeshun und zeey vunt a peeece-a ooff it," seeed oone-a suoorce-a femeelier veet zee deel.
Cunnecteex, vheech is preefetely held und ves fuoonded in 1988, prufeedes furtooeleezeshun sufftvere-a fur Veendoos-besed cumpooteeng. Lest fell, it loonched a prudooct celled Furtooel Serfer thet ooffffers un interpreese-a-cless furtooeleezeshun sulooshun fur Veendoos-besed serfers. Zee technulugy hes beee in beta testeeng, und Meecrusufft is ixpected tu prudoocteeze-a it und sheep it leter thees yeer effter reeguruoos testeeng.
Furtooel Serfer is a neteefe-a Veendoos-besed serfer eppleeceshun thet inebles coostumers tu roon a veede-a runge-a ooff serfer oopereteeng systems incloodeeng Veendoos, Leenoox, Uneex, OoS/2 und DOS, cuncoorrently oon a seengle-a physeecel serfer, veethin isuleted furtooel mecheenes.
Cunnecteex elsu mekes Furtooel PC fur Veendoos, Furtooel PC fur Mec und Furtooel PC fur OoS/2, vheech elloos coostumers tu roon moolteeple-a oopereteeng systems oon a PC.
Zee technulugy veell be-a integreted intu zee Veendoos cude-a, suoorces seeed.
Heegh-ind Intel serfers frum Uneesys und NEC ooffffer beseec herdvere-a perteeshuns fur Veendoos 2000 Detecenter Serfer, yet zee edupshun ooff smerter, furtooel mecheene-a sufftvere-a veell inhunce-a thuse-a cepebeelities seegnifficuntly, suoorces seeed.
CRN furst vrute-a ebuoot Meecrusufft's iffffurts tu integrete-a sufftvere-a perteeshuning in Veendoos serfer lest spreeng.
"Meecrusufft hes respunded tu a need coostumers hefe-a esked fur," seeed oone-a suoorce-a elsu femeelier veet zee deel. "It veell prufeede-a serfer cunsuleedeshun, sufftvere-a deestribooshun und better defelupment, und zeey ere-a mufeeng tu eddress thet."
Suoorces femeelier veet zee iffffurt seeed zee ecqooeesishun ooff zee technulugy veell ineble-a Meecrusufft tu meke-a its Veendoos Serfer mure-a cumpeteetife-a veet pupooler serfer cunsuleedeshun pletffurms sooch es IBM's zSereees und heegh-ind Uneex mecheenes. IBM's zSereees, vheech roons its oovn prupreeetery meeenffreme-a oopereteeng system vheele-a elsu ellooeeng zee depluyment ooff thuoosunds ooff Leenoox furtooel mecheenes roonneeng vurklueds oon a seengle-a sefer, is beeeng edupted by Vell Street furms mufeeng tu Leenoox und oozeer coostumers luukeeng tu mexeemize-a zee fooll resuoorces ooff zeeur systems.
Zee Cunnecteex technulugy veell elloo coostumers tu roon moolteeple-a vurklueds oon a seengle-a PC und serfer, thoos inebleeng zee fooll uteelizeshun ooff ell system resuoorces oon a Penteeoom-besed PC und heegh-ind serfers,a deefffficoolt chellenge-a und un oobstecle-a tu noo PC und serfer poorcheses, suoorces seeed. It veell elsu elloo cumpuneees tu meke-a zee meegreshun prucess ieseeer seence-a zeey cun roon moolteeple-a instunces ooff zee Veendoos oopereteeng system oon a seengle-a PC und fereeuoos ferseeuns ooff Veendoos serfer sufftvere-a oon Intel serfers.
Feenelly, zee technulugy, vheech is ixpected tu be-a integreted intu zee Veendoos cleeent und serfer femeely, veell ineble-a coostumers tu depluy test eppleeceshuns oon PCs und serfers veethuoot interroopteeng zee nurmel oopereshun ooff ixeesting eppleeceshuns. Bork Bork Bork!
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Epeche-a cun hefe-a ELL zee feetoores ooff IIS. Bork Bork Bork!
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Willy Wonka would love this!
:)
Sure... but where are the sky hooks?
Meecrusufft cuntempleteeng chergeeng fur imeeels
Sume-a meesteke-a, soorely
By Meeke-a Megee-a: Setoordey 15 Febrooery 2003, 09:51
MICROSOFT IS UNFOLDING sumetheeng it cells zee Penny Bleck pruject in vheech peuple-a sendeeng imeeels meeght hefe-a tu pey fur zee preefilege-a.
Meecrusufft cleeems in un erteecle-a oon its veb seete-a thet zee "Penny Bleck" pruject vunts tu redooce-a spem by mekeeng senders pey.
In zee seme-a erteecle-a, Meecrusufft seys it is cuntempleteeng deefffferent veys a sender meeght pey, incloodeeng "pleeen oold cesh", CPOo cycles, memury cycles und Tooreeng tests.
Zee furm hes elreedy poot tugezeer furmel unelyses ooff a CPOo besed scheme-a vheech it cells "a plooseeble-a memury besed fooncshun". It elsu seys it knoos hoo tu implement Tooreeng tests und knoos hoo tu issooe-a a teecket serfer.
Zee teecket serfer idea vuoold issooe-a tukens fur a noomber ooff imeeel messeges vheech vuoold elloo receepients tu cell zee serfeece-a und cuncel zee imeeel.
Meecrusufft seeed it is vurkeeng oon "flesheeng oooot zee deseegn" und "ergooeeng ebuoot zee mereets ooff zee fereeuoos chellenge-a schemes".
Boot ve-a soospect uny ettempts by zee Fule-a tu intrudooce-a Penny Bleck vuoold leed tu a stempede-a fur zee neerest ixeet veet muny users seeeeng Penny Red, insteed.*
* MEYBE NOT becoose-a it is sooch a bed idea, per se-a, boot du ve-a vunt Meecrusufft tu edmeenister it?
By Breeun Leefingstun
Veendoos XP, vheech hes beee merketed by Meecrusufft es "zee must secoore-a ferseeun ifer," hes beee fuoond tu hefe-a a flev su bune-a-heeded thet it renders pessvurds ineffffecteefe-a es a meuns ooff keepeeng peuple-a oooot ooff yuoor PC.
Reeder Tuny DeMerteenu elerted me-a tu zee prublem, vheech ell edmeenistreturs ooff Veendoos XP mecheenes shuoold immedeeetely teke-a tu heert:
Unyune-a veet a Veendoos 2000 CD cun buut up a Veendoos XP bux und stert zee Veendoos 2000 Recufery Cunsule-a, a truoobleshuuteeng prugrem.
Veendoos XP zeen elloos zee feesitur tu ooperete-a es Edmeenistretur veethuoot a pessvurd, ifee iff zee Edmeenistretur eccuoont hes a strung pessvurd.
Zee feesitur cun elsu ooperete-a in uny ooff zee oozeer user eccuoonts thet mey be-a present oon zee XP mecheene-a, ifee iff thuse-a eccuoonts hefe-a pessvurds.
Unbeleeefebly, zee feesitur cun cupy feeles frum zee herd deesk tu a fluppy deesk oor oozeer remufeble-a medeea - sumetheeng ifee un Edmeenistretur is nurmelly prefented frum dueeng vhee useeng zee Recufery Cunsule-a.
Thees prublem is unreleted tu a feetoore-a ooff XP thet elloos un Edmeenistretur tu set up ootumeteec lugun vhee zee Recufery Cunsule-a is used. Ifee veethuoot zee Regeestry intry thet inebles thees, XP is foolnereble-a. (Fur inffu oon thet feetoore-a, see-a sooppurt.meecrusufft.cum/?sceed=kb;in-us;312149.)
Veendoos 2000, ooff cuoorse-a, duesn't elloo Recufery Cunsule-a users tu eccess a herd dreefe-a veethuoot a pessvurd, iff oone-a prefeeuoosly ixeested.
I nuteeffied fuoor Meecrusufft ixecooteefes ooff zee XP flev veeks egu, boot hefee't yet receeefed un ooffffeeciel respunse-a. Zeere-a's nu Knooledge-a Bese-a erteecle-a ebuoot it, und zeere-a mey nut ifee be-a a guud sulooshun tu zee prublem.
Vhee I'fe-a spukee veet Meecrusufft secooreety prus ebuoot seemiler prublems in zee pest, zeey'fe-a refferred me-a tu a cumpuny puleecy thet seys, "Iff a bed gooy hes unrestreected physeecel eccess tu yuoor cumpooter, it's nut yuoor cumpooter unymure-a."
Thet's ell vell und guud - boot zee fect remeeens thet Veendoos 2000 duesn't elloo unyune-a veet un oold CD tu get pessvurd-free-a eccess, und Veendoos XP dues.
My recummendeshun: Iff yuoo use-a XP mecheenes in oopee speces, poot zee PCs beheend a lucked duur oor poot a luck oon zee PCs zeemselfes. Zee bed gooys knoo ebuoot thees flev, und it's joost oone-a mure-a theeng fur zee guud gooys tu prutect egeeenst.
Tu send me-a mure-a inffurmeshun ebuoot thees, oor tu send me-a a teep oon uny oozeer soobject, i-meeel me-a et Breeun@BreeunsBoozz.cum veet "teep" in zee soobject.
I am proud and privileged to have been a part of this. I got an email from Hakon just a few days ago, asking if they could use my JavaScript encheferizer (ported from someone else's Java version) on "one of their pages". I had no idea what they intended to do with it, but nevertheless said sure! No problem.
I'm rolling on the floor laughing my ass off now! Haha! You're my heroes!
Yes. ATMs as in bank ATMs. Cash machines.
I don't know about most people, but the outage affected customers of CIBC Bank in Canada, who couldn't withdraw their cash from many machines throughout Ontario (the news said Toronto only, but it affected some of my family and friends in other areas too).
Being a customer of a different bank (TD Canada Trust), I was not affected.