Funny you should mention billboards. I was visiting friends in SoCal a few months ago and as we were driving to LA from OC traffic suddenly got really thick, from a steady 70mph to around 40. I looked all over for accidents and on-ramps and anything else that might give a reason for the slowdown. Baffled, I asked my friend, "WTF??!" His answer: "It's the digital billboards, everyone slows down to read them. Just watch, the traffic will clear as soon as we get past them."
I went to Linux World in San Jose in 1999. All the distros were there giving away their CDs for free. Some BSD flavor had a booth (which doesn't make a lot of sense at Linux World to begin with) and they wanted $50 for their CDs. That was enough for me.
I dropped the streaming service. The selection is so bad, it's really not worth even $8 a month to me. I'd gladly pay significantly more if the selection was significantly better. I hope they can get their licensing issues worked out!
Because of this reminder-story I managed to downgrade my account to 1-dvd-only before the super-fantastic-screw-the-customer plan got billed to my account. Made the cutoff by 3 days. Have to agree, the streaming selection is pitiful at best. None of the past 10 things I've searched for were streamable and some are 10-year-old TV shows. Really? Can't stream Freaks And Geeks? Bah.
My biggest problem with PP presentations at my company is that the vast majority of people put all of the relevant information directly in the PP and then read it word for word at the audience. If they're going to do that they should just write it up as a document and publish/email it instead. If they're just going to read the screen to you (while you're allegedly reading along with them) and not add any information that's not already displayed then people completely lose interest quite fast and when someone does finally wise up to this fault and tries to change the status-quo nobody will be listening anyway.
On the other hand it has enhanced my skills at reading the slide quickly so I can do other work while they read it slowly aloud. Hopefully this will make me better at Jeopardy! if I can manage to get on the show.
In addition to Fail2ban I also make liberal use of iptables to permanent block large swaths of IP-space covering countries that I know I will never be doing business with nor plan to visit in this lifetime. For me these are mostly in eastern Europe, the middle east, and Asia. There are many web pages that provide IP lists of common offending countries.
On top of that I have an iptables rule that logs every non-http (ports 80 and 443, since those are already well logged by apache) connection attempt to the host so I can tally up the big offenders every week or two and add them to my every-growing block list. I always keep a terminal in a screen session that runs a script which tails and formats a number of my system logs including this one (with pretty colors too!) so I can see what kind of activity is going on. I usually keep it running off to the side, half-hidden and when a brute-force attack comes in it catches my eye so I can squash the fucker immediately.
I'd say the problem lies more in the insurance companies than anyone else. They don't want to pay a claim unless you can prove that you're suffering from some condition. Pro-active health care just isn't in their lexicon.
Years ago I had a keyboard that had a trackball mouse built into it just below the space bar. It was fantastic because I could put it on my lap and do all the modern computing I needed. In this day and age of mediacenter PCs and the like I'm shocked that there aren't more keyboard/mouse combos out there. Trying to work an optical mouse on the arm of the sofa just isn't natural. Would it really be so hard to tack a trackpad onto a wireless keyboard?
I would absolutely LOVE to become a cop. The problem is that completely disagree with far too many of the laws I would be sworn to uphold. If I could pick and choose which ones I needed to worry about I'd be first in line at the academy.
Um, yeah, until grep comes across a named pipe (or some other irregular file) and comes to a screeching halt. You come back 3 hours later and still have no prompt. I wish there was an option for "only recurse over REGULAR files."
I like Carlin's thinking on the matter. "Selling's legal, fucking's legal, why isn't selling fucking legal?" Only in Vegas.
No, NOT in Vegas. I wish people would stop making this claim. Prostitution is legal is certain counties of Nevada but it is NOT in Las Vegas.
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Here's a less obvious solution that might just fit your needs:
Most HDTVs these days have VGA inputs. A 15-dollar VGA cable should do the trick, and most XP installs will recognize the HD resolution and scale a desktop fairly well. Once you've hooked up the laptop to the tv, get yourself a wireless keyboard with a trackpad built in (like the Logitech Mediaboard Pro and as a bonus, it works with the PS3 too) and you should be set.
Sure, cuz who would want to use a laptop and watch TV at the same time, besides EVERYONE.
The first time the MySpace-blocking stories came around I was on the bandwagon with the rest of you. "OMG! WTF? How can they do such a thing?!" This weekend my girlfriend gave me a different point of view.
This isn't about keeping the silent nerd from reading Slashdot. It's not about hindering Little-Mary-Sunshine from adding 5 more rows of dancing guinnea pigs to her MySpace. It's about the safety and security of the people (usually women) who have to administer the places where these "public" computers are located.
Our local community college library is overrun by teenage THUGS every weekday at 1:20pm. That also happens to be the same time that summer school lets out. Coincidence? The librarians are literally scared for their life by these packs of rude, unruly future-felons. They don't DARE ask the kids to quiet down, much less leave the premises. You might say "Bah, these kids aren't gunna knife her in broad daylight." They don't have to. The librarians need to leave work at some point, and since the ghetto-kids live right across the street there's nothing to keep them from doing the job at night while the ladies walk a half mile to their cars.
I'm trying to quit smoking but the local Long's Drugs won't sell me Nicorette without swiping the mag strip on my license into their computer. I stopped shopping there. I feel awful that I let them do it the first time. I _assumed_ she was just going to look more closely at my license and didn't have time to react when she swiped it.
The Drive plays mostly decent classic rock tracks, with a little bit of DJ (non-annoying type), little commercial, whereas Jack is no DJ, and only a few minutes of commercial breaks, and they play anything (it seems that I can always find music on one of those two stations).
As many have noted, one of the great things they get out of satellite radio is the channel-specific programming. If you love the completely random hodge-podge that is JackFM then satellite is obviously not for you. And there are so many jurassic rock stations out there that you can easily drive coast-to-coast while only hearing Kashmir, Bad to the Bone, The Wall and Freebird. Why don't you just burn them to a CD, hit repeat, and be done with it so you can skip the 20 minutes of ads between the four songs?
Personally I haven't bothered to listen to anything on my Sirius except Howard100 and Howard101 and I'm quite happy with it.
While we may be "in a time of war", we are not AT war. The President did not declare war. Said non-declaration (having never existed) was not ratified by Congress. I wish people would pay attention to that fact.
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If I give $10 they will spend that same money trying to solicit me for more. It's impossible to get them to stop. They can't spend my time.
Funny you should mention billboards. I was visiting friends in SoCal a few months ago and as we were driving to LA from OC traffic suddenly got really thick, from a steady 70mph to around 40. I looked all over for accidents and on-ramps and anything else that might give a reason for the slowdown. Baffled, I asked my friend, "WTF??!" His answer: "It's the digital billboards, everyone slows down to read them. Just watch, the traffic will clear as soon as we get past them."
I went to Linux World in San Jose in 1999. All the distros were there giving away their CDs for free. Some BSD flavor had a booth (which doesn't make a lot of sense at Linux World to begin with) and they wanted $50 for their CDs. That was enough for me.
I dropped the streaming service. The selection is so bad, it's really not worth even $8 a month to me. I'd gladly pay significantly more if the selection was significantly better. I hope they can get their licensing issues worked out!
Because of this reminder-story I managed to downgrade my account to 1-dvd-only before the super-fantastic-screw-the-customer plan got billed to my account. Made the cutoff by 3 days. Have to agree, the streaming selection is pitiful at best. None of the past 10 things I've searched for were streamable and some are 10-year-old TV shows. Really? Can't stream Freaks And Geeks? Bah.
My biggest problem with PP presentations at my company is that the vast majority of people put all of the relevant information directly in the PP and then read it word for word at the audience. If they're going to do that they should just write it up as a document and publish/email it instead. If they're just going to read the screen to you (while you're allegedly reading along with them) and not add any information that's not already displayed then people completely lose interest quite fast and when someone does finally wise up to this fault and tries to change the status-quo nobody will be listening anyway.
On the other hand it has enhanced my skills at reading the slide quickly so I can do other work while they read it slowly aloud. Hopefully this will make me better at Jeopardy! if I can manage to get on the show.
In addition to Fail2ban I also make liberal use of iptables to permanent block large swaths of IP-space covering countries that I know I will never be doing business with nor plan to visit in this lifetime. For me these are mostly in eastern Europe, the middle east, and Asia. There are many web pages that provide IP lists of common offending countries.
On top of that I have an iptables rule that logs every non-http (ports 80 and 443, since those are already well logged by apache) connection attempt to the host so I can tally up the big offenders every week or two and add them to my every-growing block list. I always keep a terminal in a screen session that runs a script which tails and formats a number of my system logs including this one (with pretty colors too!) so I can see what kind of activity is going on. I usually keep it running off to the side, half-hidden and when a brute-force attack comes in it catches my eye so I can squash the fucker immediately.
First sentence of TFA:
As a part of Microsoft's continued commitment to interoperability and standards support...
Uh, when did that happen? I have yet to see M$ ever work toward either of those goals.
I'm a hacker that needs games and porn, you insensitive clod!
I'd say the problem lies more in the insurance companies than anyone else. They don't want to pay a claim unless you can prove that you're suffering from some condition. Pro-active health care just isn't in their lexicon.
Years ago I had a keyboard that had a trackball mouse built into it just below the space bar. It was fantastic because I could put it on my lap and do all the modern computing I needed. In this day and age of mediacenter PCs and the like I'm shocked that there aren't more keyboard/mouse combos out there. Trying to work an optical mouse on the arm of the sofa just isn't natural. Would it really be so hard to tack a trackpad onto a wireless keyboard?
nc: connect to otherhost port 1999 (tcp) failed: Connection refused
You opened the port on host and then told otherhost to connect back to itself. Douche.
I would absolutely LOVE to become a cop. The problem is that completely disagree with far too many of the laws I would be sworn to uphold. If I could pick and choose which ones I needed to worry about I'd be first in line at the academy.
Of course they're morally bankrupt. However they also play an important role in the ecosystem.
OMG, you're right! I'll be over in 20 minutes to smash all your windows. You know, to stimulate the economy!
All these tools are doing is saving M$ money on code audits and proper beta testing at the expense of EVERYONE else.
Um, yeah, until grep comes across a named pipe (or some other irregular file) and comes to a screeching halt. You come back 3 hours later and still have no prompt. I wish there was an option for "only recurse over REGULAR files."
I like Carlin's thinking on the matter. "Selling's legal, fucking's legal, why isn't selling fucking legal?" Only in Vegas.
No, NOT in Vegas. I wish people would stop making this claim. Prostitution is legal is certain counties of Nevada but it is NOT in Las Vegas.
Here's a less obvious solution that might just fit your needs:
Most HDTVs these days have VGA inputs. A 15-dollar VGA cable should do the trick, and most XP installs will recognize the HD resolution and scale a desktop fairly well. Once you've hooked up the laptop to the tv, get yourself a wireless keyboard with a trackpad built in (like the Logitech Mediaboard Pro and as a bonus, it works with the PS3 too) and you should be set.
Sure, cuz who would want to use a laptop and watch TV at the same time, besides EVERYONE.
# grep smtp /etc/services /. filters]
[output omitted by shitty
Port 465 looks good for TLS mail. Use it.
The first time the MySpace-blocking stories came around I was on the bandwagon with the rest of you. "OMG! WTF? How can they do such a thing?!" This weekend my girlfriend gave me a different point of view.
This isn't about keeping the silent nerd from reading Slashdot. It's not about hindering Little-Mary-Sunshine from adding 5 more rows of dancing guinnea pigs to her MySpace. It's about the safety and security of the people (usually women) who have to administer the places where these "public" computers are located.
Our local community college library is overrun by teenage THUGS every weekday at 1:20pm. That also happens to be the same time that summer school lets out. Coincidence? The librarians are literally scared for their life by these packs of rude, unruly future-felons. They don't DARE ask the kids to quiet down, much less leave the premises. You might say "Bah, these kids aren't gunna knife her in broad daylight." They don't have to. The librarians need to leave work at some point, and since the ghetto-kids live right across the street there's nothing to keep them from doing the job at night while the ladies walk a half mile to their cars.
I'm trying to quit smoking but the local Long's Drugs won't sell me Nicorette without swiping the mag strip on my license into their computer. I stopped shopping there. I feel awful that I let them do it the first time. I _assumed_ she was just going to look more closely at my license and didn't have time to react when she swiped it.
well you say we are at war... but I remember the war ending
That's funny, I don't recall hearing a declaration of war or a ratification of such by congress since 1944.
Pay attention people! We are not "at war". We are merely "warring"!
I'm sure the dual Opterons in my v40z would disagree with YOU.
As many have noted, one of the great things they get out of satellite radio is the channel-specific programming. If you love the completely random hodge-podge that is JackFM then satellite is obviously not for you. And there are so many jurassic rock stations out there that you can easily drive coast-to-coast while only hearing Kashmir, Bad to the Bone, The Wall and Freebird. Why don't you just burn them to a CD, hit repeat, and be done with it so you can skip the 20 minutes of ads between the four songs?
Personally I haven't bothered to listen to anything on my Sirius except Howard100 and Howard101 and I'm quite happy with it.
Thank you for proving your status as a Slashdotter. It's obvious that you have never spent any time a teenage girl. Keep trying tho!
I'm sure Gentoo will have something to say about stealing their business model.
While we may be "in a time of war", we are not AT war. The President did not declare war. Said non-declaration (having never existed) was not ratified by Congress. I wish people would pay attention to that fact.