Abbreviations and acronyms which sound out the letter "W" drive me nuts. Because "W" has THREE SYLLABLES! To wit:
* In hospitals, the abbreviation "GSW" is used for "Gun Shot Wound". That's a time sensitive environment--isn't "Wound" shorter than "Double-U"?
* How much time has collectively been lost saying "Double-U, Double-U, Double-U" for "World Wide Web"? Can we not figure this out?
Ah, but this has noting to do with saying anything. GSW is used as medical shorthand to reduce the amount of writing one has to do on his/her medical chart.
When I write a report, and the patient has suffered a gun shot wound, I write GSW (instead of gun shot wound, because there is only so much space on the chart for medical notes.
Here are some other accepted medial abreviations:
HTN hypertension SSCP sub sternal chest pain LS lung sounds PE pulmonary embolus
When I'm presenting a patient to the accepting ER facility, we don't say GSW, we just say gun shot wound.
And why is there no bathroom zone in their screenshot? They'd better have a toilet icon, or I'm not getting this...
I know this was modded funny for a reason but, I for one would love to listen to my classical station with some news while I do my SSS routine. Good sounding water/moisture resistant speakers are dirt cheap these days (check out Bose), and enjoying a little Mozart or Led Zeppelin would get me going in the morning.
As far as I know (IANAL) EULA violations are civil matters, whereas copyright violation is a criminal matter. Either can get you into trouble, but I'm not sure it's fair to say "it's just as illegal".
Sir, I think youmake a valid a point, and you may be on to something. All I have is one question: Which one would land me in a pound-me-in-the-ass penitentiary?
BTW, reminds me of an old saying "You can fix your own leaky sink but no one will call you a plumber, you suck one penis in prison, and you're a cocksucker for the rest os your life...."
Or, for games and doing all those things in the background that you would rather leave uninterupted (streamripping, news feeds, dvd/mp3 encoding, folding@home), get a dual core. Check this link. There's only a few fps difference when gaming and having more than a few background apps running on a dual core setup.
I'm imagining a Beowolf cluster of Walmart sweaters./smacks forehead/ Only on Slashdot do people imagine computer chips in sweaters instead of a nice healthy pair of breasts!
* To: Charles Swiger
* Subject: Re: Adaptec AAC raid support
* From: Bob Beck
* Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 13:56:41 -0700
* Cc: Theo de Raadt , Sean Hafeez , misc@openbsd.org, Scott Long , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
* In-reply-to:
* Mail-followup-to: Charles Swiger , Theo de Raadt , Sean Hafeez , misc@openbsd.org, Scott Long , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
* References:
* User-agent: Mutt/1.5.6i
>...deliberately breaking OpenBSD's support for Adaptec hardware as some > sort of ultimatum is a childish and self-destructive action. I hope > the other OpenBSD committers veto any such action as being > counterproductive and harmful to your users.
Horsecookies. What was done was remove AAC support from GENERIC, because users know what is in GENERIC is supposed to be stable and a good candidate for use. I've got AAC's. They aren't at the moment. they die, and you can't do anything with the raid management without rebooting, and Adaptec has shown no signs of releasing documentation so that situation can be corrected.
Sure, there's a "free" driver, and a non-free management interface, so it's only half a driver. Pretending to have a production system using a raid card that with no supportable management interface so you have to reboot to fix anything is like buying birth control pills in packs of 20. Pretty soon you're going to take a good fucking on a day you really can't afford it. Period.
As such AAC isnt' any more broken than it ever was. OpenBSD just chooses not to encourage users to purchase a non-supportable card by including support for it in the GENERIC kernel. Are you saying it's more honest to leave unstable and incomplete support in there? People who wish to use it anyway can always compile it in.
> Otherwise, you're likely to discover that most people choose to run an > OS which works with the hardware they have, rather than sticking with > OpenBSD.
Or choose to replace the hardware that isn't supportable by the OS they want to run. Thank you LSI and Dell. LSI cards seem to work fine.
On the other hand, X.org is being sponsored by HP, Sun, and IBM, and has representatives from SUSE, HP, Sun, and Red Hat on its board of directors.
I didn't know it was sponsored by these big corporations. How does one get them to donate resources to the development of open source 3d hardware ala Open Graphics Project??
Are they aware of the need for this type of hardware in order for Linux to be competitive on the desktop?
In a world full of cheap rush to production "enthusiast" motherboards packed to the gills with all kinds of generic no frills crap (i.e. cheap onboard sound, useless on board NIC's and 2 or even three cheap software RAID controllers), it's nice to know that my favorite motherboards manufacture is still producing quality rock-solid no-nonsense motherboards.
I've been a big fan since the pentium II days. Nary a reboot or even a hickup with these motherboards.
The only thing that concerns me is the Nvidia chipset and Linux compatibility.
I know a few folks who work at Intel (some are CPU designers). If you ask any of them, they will repeat the mantra: Intel sells chips. They don't care to who or for what purpose (this was before 9/11). If it is to someone who is going to run Linux or to someone who will run Windows, it doesn't matter because they sold that person some chips.
I'm not saying they are wrong, because you can't argue with one's opinion.
But don't chips ansd software go hand in hand? Yeah they sell chips, but I'm sure Mr. Gates get access to more specs than Linus?
If people want linux gaming taken seriously then the games will have to be built more reliably.
It is not the games that need to be "built more reliable". It is the drivers for the video cards from Nvidia and ATI that need to be fixed.
I use a Radeon 9000 Pro with DRI drivers and Tux Racer runs fine on a 1600x1200 flat panel.
The DRI drivers proably wont run th Red Orchestar mod that I want to play, but I'll just play it my second Windows-gaming-only machine until the drivers for linux catch up.
Yes, but rather than pointing that mistake out to the company that produced the software, he pointed the mistake out to the world. I'm sure the company would have taken quite a difference stance on it had he let them know about it first before going public with it.
Sinnce when am I obligated to be said company's consultant?
I wonder how often something called Ignorent Housewife Edition' would be downloaded?
If they are tired of Windows Operating systems, is should be relabled the Desperate Houswife Edition.
Then maybe, just maybe, they could make a TV series called "Desperate Houswives" were hot chicks like Terri Hatcher in tight spandex work all day long getting Debian installed, and the adminintering their box.
i'll just continue to rent them from blockbusters and use http://www.dvdshrink.org/ to rip, copy and burn them.
Rated +5 Insightful? He's clearly stealing movies by copying DVD's that aren't his, and this is "Insighful" in relation to being able to view legally purchased, or making backups of legally purcahsed DVD's????
Yeah "fvck 'em", cause that attitude will surely make this whole DRM thing go away.
A nice and confusing name apparently only chosen because the debian developers don't like intel for what they did (namely copying the amd64 and forgetting to mention that fact in their press releases).
I prefer the nice vendor-neutral x86-64.
Names of arches in Debian:
alpha ("alpha" - Alpha Processor, Inc) I think this company is defunct. amd64 ("amd(64)" - AMD) arm ("arm" - ARM , Ltd.) hppa ("hp(pa)" - Hewlett Packard) i386 ("i(ntel)386" - Intel) ia64 ("i(ntel)a(rchitecture)64" - Intel) m68k ("m(otorola)68k" - Motorola) mips ("mips" - Mips Technologies, Inc) mipsel ("mips(el)" - Mips Technologies, Inc) powerpc - PowerPC vendor neutral name sparc ("sparc" - Sparc International, Inc) s390 - ibm zSeries vendor neutral name I assume
Particularly amusing was that the article mentioned a proposal to bundle spyware into Gnome 2.0. I bet that went over like a strip club in the Vatican.
A Boy Scout strip club might have a chance. Run of the mill hetero strip club, I agree.:p
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Abbreviations and acronyms which sound out the letter "W" drive me nuts. Because "W" has THREE SYLLABLES! To wit:
* In hospitals, the abbreviation "GSW" is used for "Gun Shot Wound". That's a time sensitive environment--isn't "Wound" shorter than "Double-U"?
* How much time has collectively been lost saying "Double-U, Double-U, Double-U" for "World Wide Web"? Can we not figure this out?
Ah, but this has noting to do with saying anything. GSW is used as medical shorthand to reduce the amount of writing one has to do on his/her medical chart.
When I write a report, and the patient has suffered a gun shot wound, I write GSW (instead of gun shot wound, because there is only so much space on the chart for medical notes.
Here are some other accepted medial abreviations:
HTN hypertension
SSCP sub sternal chest pain
LS lung sounds
PE pulmonary embolus
When I'm presenting a patient to the accepting ER facility, we don't say GSW, we just say gun shot wound.
Thanks,
Your local Paramedic
i.e = id est . latin for that is
e.g. = exempli gratis, latin for free example
looked them up once in a dictionary, don't know why I still remember them, but it always helps me use the terms correctly.
Doesn't explain why pilots, who have no ground objetc references, also see the moon as very large at this time.
And why is there no bathroom zone in their screenshot? They'd better have a toilet icon, or I'm not getting this...
I know this was modded funny for a reason but, I for one would love to listen to my classical station with some news while I do my SSS routine. Good sounding water/moisture resistant speakers are dirt cheap these days (check out Bose), and enjoying a little Mozart or Led Zeppelin would get me going in the morning.
Firefox and AdBlock provide a service that is in high demand: the blockery of ads.
I shall build you a shrubbery if you send me a copy of these things you speak of!
As far as I know (IANAL) EULA violations are civil matters, whereas copyright violation is a criminal matter. Either can get you into trouble, but I'm not sure it's fair to say "it's just as illegal".
Sir, I think youmake a valid a point, and you may be on to something. All I have is one question: Which one would land me in a pound-me-in-the-ass penitentiary?
BTW, reminds me of an old saying "You can fix your own leaky sink but no one will call you a plumber, you suck one penis in prison, and you're a cocksucker for the rest os your life...."
Oh well...
before the usual rants about debian begin....
let he who has donated at least one line of code, cast the first stone...
I son't HAVE that much prOn!
;)
Don't worry. I'm sure you could fill up the rest with a spell checker, dictionary, or any one of the freely available typing tutors.
Or, for games and doing all those things in the background that you would rather leave uninterupted (streamripping, news feeds, dvd/mp3 encoding, folding@home), get a dual core. Check this link. There's only a few fps difference when gaming and having more than a few background apps running on a dual core setup.
I'm imagining a Beowolf cluster of Walmart sweaters. /smacks forehead/ Only on Slashdot do people imagine computer chips in sweaters instead of a nice healthy pair of breasts!
* To: Charles Swiger
...deliberately breaking OpenBSD's support for Adaptec hardware as some
* Subject: Re: Adaptec AAC raid support
* From: Bob Beck
* Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 13:56:41 -0700
* Cc: Theo de Raadt , Sean Hafeez , misc@openbsd.org, Scott Long , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
* In-reply-to:
* Mail-followup-to: Charles Swiger , Theo de Raadt , Sean Hafeez , misc@openbsd.org, Scott Long , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
* References:
* User-agent: Mutt/1.5.6i
>
> sort of ultimatum is a childish and self-destructive action. I hope
> the other OpenBSD committers veto any such action as being
> counterproductive and harmful to your users.
Horsecookies. What was done was remove AAC support from GENERIC,
because users know what is in GENERIC is supposed to be stable and a
good candidate for use. I've got AAC's. They aren't at the moment.
they die, and you can't do anything with the raid management without
rebooting, and Adaptec has shown no signs of releasing documentation
so that situation can be corrected.
Sure, there's a "free" driver, and a non-free management interface,
so it's only half a driver. Pretending to have a production system
using a raid card that with no supportable management interface so you
have to reboot to fix anything is like buying birth control pills in
packs of 20. Pretty soon you're going to take a good fucking on a day
you really can't afford it. Period.
As such AAC isnt' any more broken than it ever was. OpenBSD
just chooses not to encourage users to purchase a non-supportable
card by including support for it in the GENERIC kernel. Are you
saying it's more honest to leave unstable and incomplete support in
there? People who wish to use it anyway can always compile it in.
> Otherwise, you're likely to discover that most people choose to run an
> OS which works with the hardware they have, rather than sticking with
> OpenBSD.
Or choose to replace the hardware that isn't supportable by the
OS they want to run. Thank you LSI and Dell. LSI cards seem to work
fine.
-Bob
emphasis added by poster
They have this new thing called the internet. It sells you stuff and things.
Thank you Al Gore!
Love Slashdot
And G4 laptops with an ATI finally get sleep support thanks to BenH's work!
Does sleep support work on MAC desktops with linux? Meaning, can I hit the power button and watch that cute LED snore?
On the other hand, X.org is being sponsored by HP, Sun, and IBM, and has representatives from SUSE, HP, Sun, and Red Hat on its board of directors.
I didn't know it was sponsored by these big corporations. How does one get them to donate resources to the development of open source 3d hardware ala Open Graphics Project??
Are they aware of the need for this type of hardware in order for Linux to be competitive on the desktop?
In a world full of cheap rush to production "enthusiast" motherboards packed to the gills with all kinds of generic no frills crap (i.e. cheap onboard sound, useless on board NIC's and 2 or even three cheap software RAID controllers), it's nice to know that my favorite motherboards manufacture is still producing quality rock-solid no-nonsense motherboards.
I've been a big fan since the pentium II days. Nary a reboot or even a hickup with these motherboards.
The only thing that concerns me is the Nvidia chipset and Linux compatibility.
Rock on Tyan!
I know a few folks who work at Intel (some are CPU designers). If you ask any of them, they will repeat the mantra: Intel sells chips. They don't care to who or for what purpose (this was before 9/11). If it is to someone who is going to run Linux or to someone who will run Windows, it doesn't matter because they sold that person some chips.
I'm not saying they are wrong, because you can't argue with one's opinion.
But don't chips ansd software go hand in hand? Yeah they sell chips, but I'm sure Mr. Gates get access to more specs than Linus?
I think $29 for 1.5/384 servce from verizon looks a lot more attractive.
The extra bandwidth will not improve my experience 2 fold
And the downlaod just doubled for Verizon Customers in the Tri State Area (NY, NJ, CT) as per one of their commmercials, for no extra charge.
If people want linux gaming taken seriously then the games will have to be built more reliably.
It is not the games that need to be "built more reliable". It is the drivers for the video cards from Nvidia and ATI that need to be fixed.
I use a Radeon 9000 Pro with DRI drivers and Tux Racer runs fine on a 1600x1200 flat panel.
The DRI drivers proably wont run th Red Orchestar mod that I want to play, but I'll just play it my second Windows-gaming-only machine until the drivers for linux catch up.
Whats the differnece between a lawyer and a cafish?
Once is a scum sucking bottom dweller, the other on is a fish.
Baroom.
Yes, but rather than pointing that mistake out to the company that produced the software, he pointed the mistake out to the world. I'm sure the company would have taken quite a difference stance on it had he let them know about it first before going public with it.
Sinnce when am I obligated to be said company's consultant?
I wonder how often something called Ignorent Housewife Edition' would be downloaded?
If they are tired of Windows Operating systems, is should be relabled the Desperate Houswife Edition.
Then maybe, just maybe, they could make a TV series called "Desperate Houswives" were hot chicks like Terri Hatcher in tight spandex work all day long getting Debian installed, and the adminintering their box.
One can dream....
i'll just continue to rent them from blockbusters and use http://www.dvdshrink.org/ to rip, copy and burn them.
Rated +5 Insightful? He's clearly stealing movies by copying DVD's that aren't his, and this is "Insighful" in relation to being able to view legally purchased, or making backups of legally purcahsed DVD's????
Yeah "fvck 'em", cause that attitude will surely make this whole DRM thing go away.
Why do I srill bother to read these comments.....
someone contact the BSD family and tell them to leave a post it note of their passwords!
A nice and confusing name apparently only chosen because the debian developers don't like intel for what they did (namely copying the amd64 and forgetting to mention that fact in their press releases).
I prefer the nice vendor-neutral x86-64.
Names of arches in Debian:
alpha ("alpha" - Alpha Processor, Inc) I think this company is defunct.
amd64 ("amd(64)" - AMD)
arm ("arm" - ARM , Ltd.)
hppa ("hp(pa)" - Hewlett Packard)
i386 ("i(ntel)386" - Intel)
ia64 ("i(ntel)a(rchitecture)64" - Intel)
m68k ("m(otorola)68k" - Motorola)
mips ("mips" - Mips Technologies, Inc)
mipsel ("mips(el)" - Mips Technologies, Inc)
powerpc - PowerPC vendor neutral name
sparc ("sparc" - Sparc International, Inc)
s390 - ibm zSeries vendor neutral name I assume
Yup, they are all vendor neutral
Particularly amusing was that the article mentioned a proposal to bundle spyware into Gnome 2.0. I bet that went over like a strip club in the Vatican.
:p
A Boy Scout strip club might have a chance. Run of the mill hetero strip club, I agree.
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