Or, I hate to use this example, because I think the central figure should have visited a gas chamber some years ago, but imagine a Chinese cop gets murdered. How big an internet campaign would there be over there to make a folk hero out of his killer?
He'd be executed in very short order.
I don't know if you've ever read Tom Clancy's latest bore, _The Bear and the Dragon_. If you have, how much truth is there to his description of their population-control policy?
If thats the one child policy then it's complete bull. My wife, a mainland chinese, is the oldest of six. Her younger brother has three kids, and he works for the chinese government.
The one child policy is a fiction which is applied close to Beijing, but not in other places.
dave
Most Arabs aren't black, even though they nominally live in desert areas. This is because of cunning devices known as clothes, which cover up the bits you don't want burned by the sun. Fremen are desert living Muslims, i.e. Arabs.
Also, the Fremen traditionally move at night and live in caves.
Why are you not running it with 'out of the box' kernels? Given the recent appalling state of the supposedly stable tree, you're nuts to even consider changing it. Hell, I'd be more inclined to install RH 7.1 or even go back to one of the 6.2 CDs with the 2.2 kernel.
>Don't worry, IBM has their own way of targetting
>the buttondown IT crowd, and it doesn't revolve
>around stenciling sidewalks with indelible
>penguin images. As for the great mass of
>frontline desktop users, well for the moment
>it's strictly guerilla warfare there. Emphasis
>on the 'for the moment'.
Well, the button down IT crowd now were hippy kids thirty plus years ago. IBM are just playing on their nostalgia. It's a case of "Remember those ideals you had when you went to Woodstock? Linux is about that!"
> And while I'm at it, how about a business app
> that caused measurable damage in the workplace:
> MS Word.
And one that has caused even more: Outlook'
How many enterprise wide virus scares have shut down communications? All thanks to Outlook and its "wide open and pre-lubricated" approach to security.
> Back when I was in high school, all we had were Apple IIs. The software we didn't
> have, we made -- hand-coded with AppleSoft BASIC. That was quite a learning
> experience, though I doubt it rubbed off on that many potential programmers.
<yorkshireman>Luxury.
When I were a lad we had to bang two rocks together to get ones and zeros. And we were LUCKY!
</yorkshireman>
1. Introduction
2. Buying Rounds
2.1 Always Buy your round
2.2 Even if you don't like everyone.
3. Make Small Talk
3.1 The Weather
3.2 Not latest Kernel Versions (unless you're all geeks)
3.3 Sports are good
3.4 Geeky sports like Karate, Judo, Fencing are ok, but don't go overboard
3.5 Chess is right out
4. More drinking
4.1 Drink less than Alcoholics
4.2 Seriously, don't try and keep up
4.3 Don't get sick on the Boss
4.4 Get Happy, not stupid.
4.5 If you buy rounds when everyone else is drunk, you're not obliged to drink alcohol.
(otherwise known as 'chuffing heck, he didn't even look drunk after 15 pints of lager!'
4.6 Do Not Call the Boss a Wanker even after 15 pints of Lager.
4.7 Be able to Discretely Go Home early if required. (Wives are good for this)
5. When you get home
5.1 Drink Plenty of Water, eat something
6. Next Day
6.1 Don't be Hungover
6.2 Don't Show the Photos of the Boss and the inflatable Sheep.
6.3 Reserve them for Staff Appraisals
6.4 Eat fried egg and bacon sandwiches in front of the worst offenders from last night.
7. Summary
7.1 Don't get too Drunk
7.2 If you must get drunk, don't be obnoxious
7.3 Rember people who are obnoxious drunks
7.4 If they piss you off, portray them as alcoholics to the management.
QuickBasic (4.5 was the latest version, I think) was a structured basic which allowed $includes, subroutines, user defineable data types. As Basics go, it's not too shabby at all.
It didn't have the 'Please hog all my system resources' that VB has.
.
.
.
"Sir! it's an anti spammer!"
"What's he want?"
"He wants to shove our testicles up our noses and beat us to death with toner cartridges. He said something about sucking your eyes out with a penis enlarger as well."
"again?"
Slashdot Mirror
Of course, if you're Australian, 'Got Root' means something completely different...
I guess a lot of chicks would like a good rooting for Valentine's Day...
dave
Why is the link for the 'numbers station' pointing to slashdot.org?
dave
And also:
/etc/hosts now?""
/etc/hosts correct?
>Time to remove that 'doubleclick.com 127.0.0.1' from
Is it too much to expect that slashdot, of all sites, could at least get the format of
dave
Or, I hate to use this example, because I think the central figure should have visited a gas chamber some years ago, but imagine a Chinese cop gets murdered. How big an internet campaign would there be over there to make a folk hero out of his killer?
He'd be executed in very short order.
I don't know if you've ever read Tom Clancy's latest bore, _The Bear and the Dragon_. If you have, how much truth is there to his description of their population-control policy?
If thats the one child policy then it's complete bull. My wife, a mainland chinese, is the oldest of six. Her younger brother has three kids, and he works for the chinese government.
The one child policy is a fiction which is applied close to Beijing, but not in other places. dave
what studies? where?
If you're going to make assertions like that then back them up with cites.
dave
> Why not just strip all attachments from incoming email? Or at least *.scr?
.scr, it's a .scr.pif and Windows helpfully hides the real extension from you by default.
Because it's not a
dave
you do know that you can print pdfs?
dave
(login not working)
Most Arabs aren't black, even though they nominally live in desert areas. This is because of cunning devices known as clothes, which cover up the bits you don't want burned by the sun. Fremen are desert living Muslims, i.e. Arabs.
Also, the Fremen traditionally move at night and live in caves.
dave
That's why they're such vicious fighters. You wear a stupid hat like that, you'd kick the crap out of anything that moved as well.
dave
Why are you not running it with 'out of the box' kernels? Given the recent appalling state of the supposedly stable tree, you're nuts to even consider changing it. Hell, I'd be more inclined to install RH 7.1 or even go back to one of the 6.2 CDs with the 2.2 kernel.
dave
Ummm, it's a MacBSD system yes?
(Of course FreeBSD now comes with a 'compatibility layer' which is basically Red Hat Linux...)
dave
>Don't worry, IBM has their own way of targetting
>the buttondown IT crowd, and it doesn't revolve
>around stenciling sidewalks with indelible
>penguin images. As for the great mass of
>frontline desktop users, well for the moment
>it's strictly guerilla warfare there. Emphasis
>on the 'for the moment'.
Well, the button down IT crowd now were hippy kids thirty plus years ago. IBM are just playing on their nostalgia. It's a case of "Remember those ideals you had when you went to Woodstock? Linux is about that!"
dave
> And while I'm at it, how about a business app
> that caused measurable damage in the workplace:
> MS Word.
And one that has caused even more: Outlook'
How many enterprise wide virus scares have shut down communications? All thanks to Outlook and its "wide open and pre-lubricated" approach to security.
dave
> Back when I was in high school, all we had were Apple IIs. The software we didn't
> have, we made -- hand-coded with AppleSoft BASIC. That was quite a learning
> experience, though I doubt it rubbed off on that many potential programmers.
<yorkshireman>Luxury.
When I were a lad we had to bang two rocks together to get ones and zeros. And we were LUCKY!
</yorkshireman>
dave
Hmmph! I resemble that remark!
dave
wirefarm writes:
>> 2. Buying Rounds
>
>Hollowpoint...
For my current workplace, hollow point would be too nice. I'd prefer to use a blunt spoon.
dave
Do we need a Socializing HOWTO?
1. Introduction
2. Buying Rounds
2.1 Always Buy your round
2.2 Even if you don't like everyone.
3. Make Small Talk
3.1 The Weather
3.2 Not latest Kernel Versions (unless you're all geeks)
3.3 Sports are good
3.4 Geeky sports like Karate, Judo, Fencing are ok, but don't go overboard
3.5 Chess is right out
4. More drinking
4.1 Drink less than Alcoholics
4.2 Seriously, don't try and keep up
4.3 Don't get sick on the Boss
4.4 Get Happy, not stupid.
4.5 If you buy rounds when everyone else is drunk, you're not obliged to drink alcohol.
(otherwise known as 'chuffing heck, he didn't even look drunk after 15 pints of lager!'
4.6 Do Not Call the Boss a Wanker even after 15 pints of Lager.
4.7 Be able to Discretely Go Home early if required. (Wives are good for this)
5. When you get home
5.1 Drink Plenty of Water, eat something
6. Next Day
6.1 Don't be Hungover
6.2 Don't Show the Photos of the Boss and the inflatable Sheep.
6.3 Reserve them for Staff Appraisals
6.4 Eat fried egg and bacon sandwiches in front of the worst offenders from last night.
7. Summary
7.1 Don't get too Drunk
7.2 If you must get drunk, don't be obnoxious
7.3 Rember people who are obnoxious drunks
7.4 If they piss you off, portray them as alcoholics to the management.
Absolutely. It's those comments like:
/etc/mail/access file which mark a true sysadmin.
*@aol.com 550 F**k off lusers
in your
dave
"The internet was designed so that, in times of nuclear war, the United States Military would have free and east access to pornography."
dave
Compaq make Visual Fortran. I was supposed to learn it for a project, took one look at it and re-specified all my tasks in Visual Basic.
dave
QuickBasic (4.5 was the latest version, I think) was a structured basic which allowed $includes, subroutines, user defineable data types. As Basics go, it's not too shabby at all.
It didn't have the 'Please hog all my system resources' that VB has.
dave
Two words:
Cobol Script.
http://www.deskware.com
dave
Heh! Klingon programs don't have parameters. they have arguments! And they always win them!
Har!
dave
Typical blokes.
It's actually a clit-mouse, but then most blokes would probably never find it.
dave
"First Officer! Demurk!" ... Finished!"
"Yes Captain Spamford."
"Prepare spam... Bulk Email!"
"Bulk Emailing sir!
"Excellent, return to Murk space."
.
.
.
"Sir! it's an anti spammer!"
"What's he want?"
"He wants to shove our testicles up our noses and beat us to death with toner cartridges. He said something about sucking your eyes out with a penis enlarger as well."
"again?"
dave