"It's so beautiful, I feel so... I feel my juices are just you know... it makes me so... I want to write, I want to paint, I want to sculpt something massive. I've got a creative urge. I wonder if there's a men's room around here."
I'd give up my day job in a heartbeat if there was any money in the massive sculpture market.
...but what is a dot in Morse code? You know - loser@aol[.]com. For that matter, what about things like _ and / or \? How would you know that the username is big.loser and not big_loser @aol.com.
If they're just adding the @ now, what other symbols that are necessary for "communication in the 21 century"?
The bug wasn't responsible for the alarm not going off. Turns out that there was a small slip of paper that had fallen down between the hammer and the bell of the alarm that was supposed to ring. The paper dampened the ring of the alarm, and thus it was never heard.
Oh well, i've got to go back to sniffing more Sterno.
One time I pulled out a 1U rack mount chassis from our rack only to hear it power down as it got about halfway out. When we installed the system, we didn't use the cable management system in the back to snake the power cable through, so when the chassis was pulled out to install a hot-swappable device, it yanked the power cord out.
Luckily it wasn't a really important server.
Lesson learned: Use cable management systems, or give yourself enough slack so that when you need it, you'll have it. No sense in having hot-swappable components if you power down the system when you pull it out of the rack.
I also had a problem with Disc 2 of the Matrix Reloaded DVD set. The DVD froze in the same place before the main menu every time i put it in my home theater DVD player, but worked flawlessly in my DVD drive on my desktop.
Has anyone else had this trouble with DVD's not playing on a set-top device, but firing up on a DVD drive of a computer?
Geeze, i hope someone comes up with a solution to this dilemna. You see, i don't want to buy an iPod, because that would be too easy. Instead, i just bought a "Walkman" - it's this cool retro hardware that can play audio tapes while you walk...or sit, or stand even! So i need to find a way to convert my.mp3 collection to.wav files that i can then transfer to audio cassettes (or "tapes") so i can pop one of them into my Walkman and listen with reckless abandon while i park cars (i'm a valet).
I hope this is possible. I want to see if i can induce some sort of ass-backwards, retro-technical vortex that will suck cars from one location to another.
They have a one-day special 'cause we slashdotted them.
At least they have a sense of humor!
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If you don't know how the developers decided to allow you to unlock a force-sensitive (FS) character - let me give you the lowdown. The "top secret, dynamic, non-random, biological..." method they chose:
You have to master 5 random professions that are assigned at the time of your character creation. That's 5 out of 32. Sound like long odds? Don't worry, the developers thought sooooo hard on this, they figured out a way to give people a leg up. That's right, they placed Holocrons across the game as loot drops on uber characters (well, uber to casual gamers, not really to hardcore grinders) that will tell you 4 out of the 5 proffesions your character must master in order for you to unlock the FS slot.
What does that mean? Well, if you wish to unlock a FS (force-sensitive) slot, you have to grind up to a combat profession so you can solo these holocron dropping MOBS. Then you have to get a holocron (the drops are pretty rare). Then, you have to listen to the holocron on what profession you should next master.
Soooooo, imagine you become a great pistoleer. What happens if your first holocron tells you to be a master weaponsmith? Well, you start the mindless grind to a profession that you are mastering for the sole purpose of filling a randomly assigned profession, so you can be 20% closer to unlocking a FS slot.
Great.
They've basically removed the ability for anyone wanting to be a Jedi on creating a character that they've invested a lot of time personalizing and leveling, because now you have to spend your limited profession points to master wild goose hunt professions.
That's not even mentioning the fact that after you've completed four of the five professions, the holocrons you manage to pick up as loot stop giving hints and you're left blindingly hunting for the one last profession.
It totally sucks. It ruined the game for many players that thought the dev's would be a litle more caring and have a little more thought behind the end-game. It completely de-values the intent and any sense of caring that you may have thought the dev's had for the game.
I just recently interviewed someone based on a impeccable resume. The job basically boiled down to some javascript programming, and he'd been programming javascript for several years. He even knew the industry application we were using in our environment.
However, about 30 seconds into the interview (right after "Didja have any trouble finding us?") i figured out that he was either an outright liar, or suffered some sort of blunt-head trauma on the way to meet me. Not only didn't he have any idea about anything technical, turns out he wasn't managing the staff of 300 back at his old job, but rather cleaned the place after everyone else went home.
Maybe in nature, but with produce that's picked before it's ripe in order to better facilitate shipping, then pumped with ethylene to mature on the spot. It's hard to tell.
We use RIS to make base installations. That takes about 15 minutes to re-install win2K on a machine that's hosed. Then, we use group policies to install applications (that have been made into.msi's).
If i want to "re-image" an admin machine (MS Office, a few industry specific apps, SQL client, etc.), for example, it takes about 45 minutes from top-to-botton. And almost all of that time is hands-off.
Users' My Documents folder contents are stored in their profile directory on one of our servers, along with their desktops, etc. so that's completly portable...
I know it's not exactly what you are asking for, but it makes a lot of sense to use, instead of mirroring everything. In my experience (which has been 0 in the last 3 years or so), GHOST is too damn slow to be useful. It doesn't take a week, but it takes a long time.
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Let's bring back the B:\ drive. I'm tired of living in a third-world, well third-letter anyway, society.
When was the last time you saw a 5 1/2" foppy disk anyway? Relax - it's a rhetorical question. I know you're looking at one right now.
This guy needs a better hobby than answering spam. Maybe he can practice dodging oncoming traffic.
Yeah, that's why i don't play anymore. If you have that many questions as to why you should still play, maybe you've answered your own question.
"It's so beautiful, I feel so ... I feel my juices are just you know ... it makes me so ... I want to write, I want to paint, I want to sculpt something massive. I've got a creative urge. I wonder if there's a men's room around here."
I'd give up my day job in a heartbeat if there was any money in the massive sculpture market.
A cheap solution that might work for you is a length of corrugated vacuum hose (you can pick that up at Walmart or Target).
Just cut it in half lengthwise, and it makes a pretty good wrapper for cable management. It's cheap, effective, and looks pretty good.
And oh yeah - get rid of the cat.
That may be true, but look at the Bradley. That thing took forever to make it to production, and it see's a lot of service.
Not that it makes it right just saying that classis government boondoggles are kinda par for the course with the military.
You know, Earnest?
BTW - what ever happened to him?
...but what is a dot in Morse code? You know - loser@aol[.]com. For that matter, what about things like _ and / or \? How would you know that the username is big.loser and not big_loser @aol.com.
If they're just adding the @ now, what other symbols that are necessary for "communication in the 21 century"?
Don't forget Godzuki.
The bug wasn't responsible for the alarm not going off. Turns out that there was a small slip of paper that had fallen down between the hammer and the bell of the alarm that was supposed to ring. The paper dampened the ring of the alarm, and thus it was never heard.
Oh well, i've got to go back to sniffing more Sterno.
yeah, um, forgot the link.
That's nothing. Wait until he sees my wooden Ferrari!!
You're crazy.
One time I pulled out a 1U rack mount chassis from our rack only to hear it power down as it got about halfway out. When we installed the system, we didn't use the cable management system in the back to snake the power cable through, so when the chassis was pulled out to install a hot-swappable device, it yanked the power cord out.
Luckily it wasn't a really important server.
Lesson learned: Use cable management systems, or give yourself enough slack so that when you need it, you'll have it. No sense in having hot-swappable components if you power down the system when you pull it out of the rack.
I also had a problem with Disc 2 of the Matrix Reloaded DVD set. The DVD froze in the same place before the main menu every time i put it in my home theater DVD player, but worked flawlessly in my DVD drive on my desktop.
Has anyone else had this trouble with DVD's not playing on a set-top device, but firing up on a DVD drive of a computer?
Geeze, i hope someone comes up with a solution to this dilemna. You see, i don't want to buy an iPod, because that would be too easy. Instead, i just bought a "Walkman" - it's this cool retro hardware that can play audio tapes while you walk...or sit, or stand even! So i need to find a way to convert my .mp3 collection to .wav files that i can then transfer to audio cassettes (or "tapes") so i can pop one of them into my Walkman and listen with reckless abandon while i park cars (i'm a valet).
I hope this is possible. I want to see if i can induce some sort of ass-backwards, retro-technical vortex that will suck cars from one location to another.
They have a one-day special 'cause we slashdotted them.
At least they have a sense of humor!
We've been slashdot'ed! Woo hoo! Get $10 off Beyond TV and Beyond TV Kits (with tuner card). Buy Beyond TV for as low as $49.99! Simply use coupon code "slashdot2003" to redeem this special offer. (posted 12/30/2003)
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So, um, are we just pretending that HL2 came out in September and that it shattered our perception of what a FPS could be?
Ok, good. Now i can get on with my life.
If you don't know how the developers decided to allow you to unlock a force-sensitive (FS) character - let me give you the lowdown. The "top secret, dynamic, non-random, biological..." method they chose:
You have to master 5 random professions that are assigned at the time of your character creation. That's 5 out of 32. Sound like long odds? Don't worry, the developers thought sooooo hard on this, they figured out a way to give people a leg up. That's right, they placed Holocrons across the game as loot drops on uber characters (well, uber to casual gamers, not really to hardcore grinders) that will tell you 4 out of the 5 proffesions your character must master in order for you to unlock the FS slot.
What does that mean? Well, if you wish to unlock a FS (force-sensitive) slot, you have to grind up to a combat profession so you can solo these holocron dropping MOBS. Then you have to get a holocron (the drops are pretty rare). Then, you have to listen to the holocron on what profession you should next master.
Soooooo, imagine you become a great pistoleer. What happens if your first holocron tells you to be a master weaponsmith? Well, you start the mindless grind to a profession that you are mastering for the sole purpose of filling a randomly assigned profession, so you can be 20% closer to unlocking a FS slot.
Great.
They've basically removed the ability for anyone wanting to be a Jedi on creating a character that they've invested a lot of time personalizing and leveling, because now you have to spend your limited profession points to master wild goose hunt professions.
That's not even mentioning the fact that after you've completed four of the five professions, the holocrons you manage to pick up as loot stop giving hints and you're left blindingly hunting for the one last profession.
It totally sucks. It ruined the game for many players that thought the dev's would be a litle more caring and have a little more thought behind the end-game. It completely de-values the intent and any sense of caring that you may have thought the dev's had for the game.
Bottom line, the Jedi path is bullshit.
I just recently interviewed someone based on a impeccable resume. The job basically boiled down to some javascript programming, and he'd been programming javascript for several years. He even knew the industry application we were using in our environment.
However, about 30 seconds into the interview (right after "Didja have any trouble finding us?") i figured out that he was either an outright liar, or suffered some sort of blunt-head trauma on the way to meet me. Not only didn't he have any idea about anything technical, turns out he wasn't managing the staff of 300 back at his old job, but rather cleaned the place after everyone else went home.
I'd bet that the BIOS isn't recognizing the CD Drive type and Windows 2K/Xp freaks out about it.
Have him check to see if the BIOS is recognizing anything on that IDE chain. If not, set it to auto detect and that should do the trick.
Maybe in nature, but with produce that's picked before it's ripe in order to better facilitate shipping, then pumped with ethylene to mature on the spot. It's hard to tell.
Here is the official site for the show. There are a few fan sites that are navigable off of the main site too.
It's quite and entertaining and informative show, and should definately be Tivo'd (since, you know, we're all out on Friday nights).
If you figure out how to write the code, see if you can do anything with this http://jpg2asc.hierklikken.com/.
That way, you can convert your "I'm with stupid" JPEG into ascii and embroider it to your cloak.
We use RIS to make base installations. That takes about 15 minutes to re-install win2K on a machine that's hosed. Then, we use group policies to install applications (that have been made into .msi's).
If i want to "re-image" an admin machine (MS Office, a few industry specific apps, SQL client, etc.), for example, it takes about 45 minutes from top-to-botton. And almost all of that time is hands-off.
Users' My Documents folder contents are stored in their profile directory on one of our servers, along with their desktops, etc. so that's completly portable...
I know it's not exactly what you are asking for, but it makes a lot of sense to use, instead of mirroring everything. In my experience (which has been 0 in the last 3 years or so), GHOST is too damn slow to be useful. It doesn't take a week, but it takes a long time.