Let's just hope your family tree has forks and not loops. Otherwise you may have a uncle-daddy, a cousin-momma or maybe some extra digits or something.
Well, some places like my area have municipal owned electric grid. It is essentially non-profit. Prices only raise with the cost of power generation and cost of planned and approved upgrades. We have had so many bad power outages that they sent the meter-reader dudes around to ask people if they wanted the line from pole to the house buried. The only direct cost to the customer is to get the line disconnected from the meter and possibly change out the short high voltage wire from the meter to the breaker box if it is aluminum wire (will likely break if moved). So you are out about $30 for wire and $50 for an electrician or $10 in beer to a buddy that knows what he is doing. This saves you the hassle of having an unplanned power outage.
RAH was talking about doing this many moons ago. Seemed to me that he had it all worked out. What I don't understand is why we don't have better, more flexible space suits yet. I'll go in the second round after the initial bugs are worked out.
At least 20 lbs., possibly as much as 40 or 50, the Kaypro that I remember seeing in a magazine was also called a portable, but it is what we today call a luggable. It was as big as a suitcase. It is in a shape that can be carried and it has a handle, but you don't want it on your lap.
My newest desktop PC has a handle built in to the case and it is only 30 lbs. or so, but it is definitely not a portable.
We don't need more legislation, but we do need to up the level of aggression in persuing these people and up the amount of punishment they are given when they are caught. While they are thinking about their planned attacks, they need to have cause to consider the potential cost to their lives as well.
We all need to use our spam filters, pop-up and flash blockers and we need to just beat the crap out of any of these guys we catch. Would you rather have a hefty fine for a crime or an awful ass beating by random strangers.
Judge: Now that we've traced the spam to computers under the defendents control and proved that he wrote or caused to be wrote said malicious software we will carry on with the sentencing phase. You will be subject to an ass-whooping by a group of your peers, in this case, any and all users of the Internet. Let the beating begin!
I've been using Linux for various tasks and on various PCs since 1998. I joined a local LUG and still attend meetings. I and others help newbies with installs, problems and direct people to resources and answers. I know our group is not the only one out there that does this. I've gotten and given help on many forums, IRC channels and via email. Help is out there.
Sure people say off the cuff to RTFM. A lot of us have done user support at work which requires a ton of hand-holding and making it "just work", ending with very little appreciation and grumbling that computers are just too complicated. Even MS products don't work as expected for Joe Average user out of the box or they make it very easy to screw things up in new and creative ways. Point is, if you are moving to a Linux system, you are attempting to have a sea-change to the system, even if the interface is user friendly. you may actually have to learn something. You may discover all kinds of cool stuff without even knowing that you wanted to know.
What is needed is for every Linux supporter that really wants to help the situation is to read the Advocacy howto, to learn to communicate clearly and to chill the hell out if someone asks a question. It's not that big of an inconvienience to answer a question. For the newbie, there ought to be a copy on every distro of "How To Ask Intelligent Questions", they need to learn to communicate clearly and they need to chill the hell out. Unpaid support is not as fast as paid support, sometimes. But mosttimes it is a hell of a lot faster. And more accurate if the person giving the support is passionate about it. THAT is a very big difference between Windows and Linux. Linux users I know are so passionate about it, that they can't wait to have you up and running on your shiny new system, so you can enjoy the freedom and passion that they have. That is community at work.
Well, if you have access to a tool like Wise Package Studio, you can capture the changes to registry, files, etc. and review after install in your test lab. There are also a few tools to look at registry changes. I use tracker for this. There are others.
You could also set up a Windows box in a virtual machine like VMWare and test without harming the system and have easy rollback. I have a base XP ghost image that I can put on my machine, run a patch or program, test it, beat the hell out of it, capture it for building a remote push and then reimage and do something else. Also have each of the 2 main system image used in my building on there, Developer image and standard user. I test my pushes on those and patches.
If you don't have a lab where you can easily break and rebuild stuff, then you are not working smart.
Woz at the computer history museum
on
I, Woz
·
· Score: 1
I watched a great speech by Woz on Google Video that he did at the Computer History Museum. He mentions that he had just finished writing his book. In an hour and a half, he takes us from boyhood to about the time of the first Mac. very interseting, even if I'm not a macaddict. I've always respected Woz from my time spent with the Apple II+ and II GS back in grade school.
"While it is highly unlikely for all 360s to be pulled from shelves, Lucent is using this threat to gain leverage to win their case -- in court or out of court."
Sounds like they are gonna break some legs if they don't get their money.
1. Have vague idea of how to do something simple. 2. Write it up and send to patent office. 3. Lie in wait for idea to be needed by industry. 4. Pounce on company that discovered idea and solution on their own. 5. Profit!!! On the back of the consumer.
I thought these tards had to produce a working model of the idea, maybe even attempt to mass-produce. In my opinion, if they don't, they are holding back industry, not helping it or spurring it along.
Well, I just happened on Jason X right in the middle on cable one night. I didn't see the one previous to it and get the whole setup. I think the last Jason movie I saw was the one on the cruise ship. Now that was funny and mindless entertainment. The last Freddie movie I saw was Dream Child. I liked the redhead from Dream Warrior so I watched it. I found out there is a Hellraiser 6, so now I have to go check that out. If ever there was a movie to catch on cable or bittorrent....
Look at the cheap pizzas in teh frozen food aisle at the grocery store. I buy them for my kids since they don't care about quality. They are good enough. My girlfriend noticed the warning when she was throwing one in the oven.
From a really bad movie. Almost as bad as Sphere. Good ideas or books left in the hands of fools that don't understand the science and you end up with crap like this. It was like they were trying to use science to explain and recreate Hellraiser. Don't try to sell me on a sci-fi movie and then turn it into a bad horror flick with a highly questionable premise. Let's just have Jason mysteriously appear on a space station and start slashing everyone.
Blech. I just saw Hellraiser IV: Bloodline and it was done better than Event Horizon. I wanna know when we can have Freddy vs. Pinhead, Predator vs. Pinhead, or Freddy vs. Predator or Alien. I wanna know who wins. I think it was Scary Movie 3 that had Freddy and Jason sit down to a nice game of chess.
"50,000 John Does? Racketeering? Civil conspiracy?"
Nah. Sounds just like the latest round of John Doe suits from the RIAA against file-sharers. Now if he had hired a $400/hour lawyer like the real racket calls for, then he might have gotten heard. Then we'd all be griping about the stupidity of the legal system for listening to something so bogus.
In reality, issues like this get tested all the time. The next guy or publishing company, with the proper high-priced attorney, will get his story coherent and very legal-sounding and test the boundaries of fair-use. There are people and companies sitting around trying to think up new creative ways to sue companies with large wallets. They look at cases like these and try to figure out where the guy went wrong or find some new angle. Why do you think we have warning labels on everything? yes, people are that stupid, but someone was bright enough to sue over it.
I saw on a frozen pizza laast night a warning: "You must cook pizza before eating." Really? I didn't know that, but the hard frozen crust and case of salmonilla later on might have given it away.
I thought that all the time and trouble that was put into LSB (Linux Standard Base) was supposed to basically solve this. At the very least, go with Debian Sarge, since they are totally non-profit, and let the other distros help as they can. And aren't most drivers in the kernel or compiled as modules to the kernel? That is where the really important collaboration with a hardware vendor take place. And Dell could maintain webpages with info about the hardware in each model. IBM does it. If you don't make it all flashy and stuff, it won't even take up that much room.
Dang. I'm surprised that is so out in the open in this country. Those people should be busted for profiting off these illegal items. Completely different from file-sharing where there is no exchange of money for profit or even a physical product. Fine line, I know, but it is what I believe.
Same thing if I rent a movie and make a copy if I really like it and want to watch it again. I have spent a ton on movies in the theater, purchases, rentals, and a little bit of tie-in merchandise. I've also had a bunch of DVDs get scratched beyond being watchable, and VHS tapes broken. And now they want to disallow the ability to have a copy in case the original gets damaged? F*** them. I will never sell a copied DVD, but I think I've spent enough to justify a personal copy.
Slashdot Mirror
Let's just hope your family tree has forks and not loops. Otherwise you may have a uncle-daddy, a cousin-momma or maybe some extra digits or something.
They really want the end result, which is the smell of my butt.
Sorry, watched 2 hrs of Beavis and Butthead on DVD last night and there were butt jokes galore.
Fart knocker.
Remote control Shuttle, that's one helluva R/C plane!
They'll get to sue Microsoft too over MS Access.
and the MMC snap-in for SQL server
Well, some places like my area have municipal owned electric grid. It is essentially non-profit. Prices only raise with the cost of power generation and cost of planned and approved upgrades. We have had so many bad power outages that they sent the meter-reader dudes around to ask people if they wanted the line from pole to the house buried. The only direct cost to the customer is to get the line disconnected from the meter and possibly change out the short high voltage wire from the meter to the breaker box if it is aluminum wire (will likely break if moved). So you are out about $30 for wire and $50 for an electrician or $10 in beer to a buddy that knows what he is doing. This saves you the hassle of having an unplanned power outage.
RAH was talking about doing this many moons ago. Seemed to me that he had it all worked out. What I don't understand is why we don't have better, more flexible space suits yet. I'll go in the second round after the initial bugs are worked out.
At least 20 lbs., possibly as much as 40 or 50, the Kaypro that I remember seeing in a magazine was also called a portable, but it is what we today call a luggable. It was as big as a suitcase. It is in a shape that can be carried and it has a handle, but you don't want it on your lap.
My newest desktop PC has a handle built in to the case and it is only 30 lbs. or so, but it is definitely not a portable.
Like all other interoperability they try to build in to Winders, embrace, extend, extinguish.
I'm not the first to say it, nor will I be the last.
Some of us don't have the attention span of a gnat and don't forget the past. "Those that forget the past, are doomed to repeat it."
We don't need more legislation, but we do need to up the level of aggression in persuing these people and up the amount of punishment they are given when they are caught. While they are thinking about their planned attacks, they need to have cause to consider the potential cost to their lives as well.
We all need to use our spam filters, pop-up and flash blockers and we need to just beat the crap out of any of these guys we catch. Would you rather have a hefty fine for a crime or an awful ass beating by random strangers.
Judge: Now that we've traced the spam to computers under the defendents control and proved that he wrote or caused to be wrote said malicious software we will carry on with the sentencing phase. You will be subject to an ass-whooping by a group of your peers, in this case, any and all users of the Internet. Let the beating begin!
I've been using Linux for various tasks and on various PCs since 1998. I joined a local LUG and still attend meetings. I and others help newbies with installs, problems and direct people to resources and answers. I know our group is not the only one out there that does this. I've gotten and given help on many forums, IRC channels and via email. Help is out there.
Sure people say off the cuff to RTFM. A lot of us have done user support at work which requires a ton of hand-holding and making it "just work", ending with very little appreciation and grumbling that computers are just too complicated. Even MS products don't work as expected for Joe Average user out of the box or they make it very easy to screw things up in new and creative ways. Point is, if you are moving to a Linux system, you are attempting to have a sea-change to the system, even if the interface is user friendly. you may actually have to learn something. You may discover all kinds of cool stuff without even knowing that you wanted to know.
What is needed is for every Linux supporter that really wants to help the situation is to read the Advocacy howto, to learn to communicate clearly and to chill the hell out if someone asks a question. It's not that big of an inconvienience to answer a question. For the newbie, there ought to be a copy on every distro of "How To Ask Intelligent Questions", they need to learn to communicate clearly and they need to chill the hell out. Unpaid support is not as fast as paid support, sometimes. But mosttimes it is a hell of a lot faster. And more accurate if the person giving the support is passionate about it. THAT is a very big difference between Windows and Linux. Linux users I know are so passionate about it, that they can't wait to have you up and running on your shiny new system, so you can enjoy the freedom and passion that they have. That is community at work.
Well, if you have access to a tool like Wise Package Studio, you can capture the changes to registry, files, etc. and review after install in your test lab. There are also a few tools to look at registry changes. I use tracker for this. There are others.
You could also set up a Windows box in a virtual machine like VMWare and test without harming the system and have easy rollback. I have a base XP ghost image that I can put on my machine, run a patch or program, test it, beat the hell out of it, capture it for building a remote push and then reimage and do something else. Also have each of the 2 main system image used in my building on there, Developer image and standard user. I test my pushes on those and patches.
If you don't have a lab where you can easily break and rebuild stuff, then you are not working smart.
I watched a great speech by Woz on Google Video that he did at the Computer History Museum. He mentions that he had just finished writing his book. In an hour and a half, he takes us from boyhood to about the time of the first Mac. very interseting, even if I'm not a macaddict. I've always respected Woz from my time spent with the Apple II+ and II GS back in grade school.
"While it is highly unlikely for all 360s to be pulled from shelves, Lucent is using this threat to gain leverage to win their case -- in court or out of court."
Sounds like they are gonna break some legs if they don't get their money.
1. Have vague idea of how to do something simple.
2. Write it up and send to patent office.
3. Lie in wait for idea to be needed by industry.
4. Pounce on company that discovered idea and solution on their own.
5. Profit!!! On the back of the consumer.
I thought these tards had to produce a working model of the idea, maybe even attempt to mass-produce. In my opinion, if they don't, they are holding back industry, not helping it or spurring it along.
"Hey, nice beaver."
"Thanks, I just had it stuffed."
Well, I just happened on Jason X right in the middle on cable one night. I didn't see the one previous to it and get the whole setup. I think the last Jason movie I saw was the one on the cruise ship. Now that was funny and mindless entertainment. The last Freddie movie I saw was Dream Child. I liked the redhead from Dream Warrior so I watched it.
I found out there is a Hellraiser 6, so now I have to go check that out. If ever there was a movie to catch on cable or bittorrent....
Look at the cheap pizzas in teh frozen food aisle at the grocery store. I buy them for my kids since they don't care about quality. They are good enough. My girlfriend noticed the warning when she was throwing one in the oven.
From a really bad movie. Almost as bad as Sphere. Good ideas or books left in the hands of fools that don't understand the science and you end up with crap like this. It was like they were trying to use science to explain and recreate Hellraiser. Don't try to sell me on a sci-fi movie and then turn it into a bad horror flick with a highly questionable premise. Let's just have Jason mysteriously appear on a space station and start slashing everyone.
Blech. I just saw Hellraiser IV: Bloodline and it was done better than Event Horizon. I wanna know when we can have Freddy vs. Pinhead, Predator vs. Pinhead, or Freddy vs. Predator or Alien. I wanna know who wins. I think it was Scary Movie 3 that had Freddy and Jason sit down to a nice game of chess.
"50,000 John Does? Racketeering? Civil conspiracy?"
Nah. Sounds just like the latest round of John Doe suits from the RIAA against file-sharers. Now if he had hired a $400/hour lawyer like the real racket calls for, then he might have gotten heard. Then we'd all be griping about the stupidity of the legal system for listening to something so bogus.
In reality, issues like this get tested all the time. The next guy or publishing company, with the proper high-priced attorney, will get his story coherent and very legal-sounding and test the boundaries of fair-use. There are people and companies sitting around trying to think up new creative ways to sue companies with large wallets. They look at cases like these and try to figure out where the guy went wrong or find some new angle. Why do you think we have warning labels on everything? yes, people are that stupid, but someone was bright enough to sue over it.
I saw on a frozen pizza laast night a warning: "You must cook pizza before eating." Really? I didn't know that, but the hard frozen crust and case of salmonilla later on might have given it away.
Man, this is better than some of the crap on You-Tube. Time to browse the PTC website. Later.
"I am under the impression that Cisco is working on a new protocol, beer-over-ip. More details at 11."
Yes. I can't wait to plug in the iKEG in my living room. The next innovation will be the iBBQ. You cook your meat and then teleport it.
I thought that all the time and trouble that was put into LSB (Linux Standard Base) was supposed to basically solve this. At the very least, go with Debian Sarge, since they are totally non-profit, and let the other distros help as they can. And aren't most drivers in the kernel or compiled as modules to the kernel? That is where the really important collaboration with a hardware vendor take place. And Dell could maintain webpages with info about the hardware in each model. IBM does it. If you don't make it all flashy and stuff, it won't even take up that much room.
So does yahoo now have "hand"?
Dang. I'm surprised that is so out in the open in this country. Those people should be busted for profiting off these illegal items. Completely different from file-sharing where there is no exchange of money for profit or even a physical product. Fine line, I know, but it is what I believe.
Same thing if I rent a movie and make a copy if I really like it and want to watch it again. I have spent a ton on movies in the theater, purchases, rentals, and a little bit of tie-in merchandise. I've also had a bunch of DVDs get scratched beyond being watchable, and VHS tapes broken. And now they want to disallow the ability to have a copy in case the original gets damaged? F*** them. I will never sell a copied DVD, but I think I've spent enough to justify a personal copy.
Also might try Zina (Zina is Not Andromeda)
www.pancake.org