Now I have to remember that "PS2" stands for at least three things that I can think of right off the bat and that "port" stands for a bunch of things. Maybe we'll go ahead and replace common technical jargon with just 50 key words that mean at least 10 things a piece. That way, NO ONE will understand us and we'll totally be 31337.
"There are linux ps2 ports? ps2 mice and keyboards specifically made for linux boxen? huh?"
Uhm.. Well, where I live, I pay $90 for 1.5 down/384 up for DSL. I also pay an additional $20 for phone and $15 for long distance.
But what is this 8Mbps? or 8mpbs? or what? Someone want to fix the caps on that? If I could get 8Mbps/1Mbps for $100, HELL YEAH that would be a good deal.
Now all we need are inflatable music-making-devices and we can have a party in a bag!
How about creating a new form of boat parties where you ship out and set up the speakers floating in the water and you can swim around the sound for a totally Debussy-esque experience.
How about one of those bouncy inflatable houses that you see at fairs? We could have the COMPLETELY inflated house! (No golf shoes please)
As far as I can remember for back in the days when I worked on Macs, they did the same thing. They would play a tune to let you know if the RAM was bad or if some check failed on boot. I remember listening to my computer do RAM checks years ago. I doubt that that's an easter egg.
Though Fur Elise and It's a Small World are pretty friggin odd.
At my old company, we purchased a whole slew of really damned cheap (but fast!) Toshiba laptops. The AC adapters were so hot that quite a few users were afraid to touch them. I even caught someone putting their coffee mug on top of the AC adapter to keep it warm.
And if you call within the next 15 minutes, we'll throw in a FREE coffee warmer!
GE diversifies like mad. They really have a major problem being hurt. Have you seen their list of the companies they own?
But if you're talking about hosting services, GE owned or at least had a lot of stock in one of them that tanked. My understanding is that GE stuck it out until the bitter end and then had to move all their servers in one night to a new colo.
Exactly. But see, the problem w/ the difference between a living-in-a-colo dream vs the living-in-a-box-with-phatpipe is that it's not a cramped box filled with gear. I have always been inspired by Hiro and by Invisigoth;) but they have small box-homes...
my place would just be palatial. and enviro-controlled:D
that if Exodus starts selling some of their real estate, my living-in-a-colo dream will come true! Screw that living in a wired warehouse crap. I want my building to be ON the backbone and protected from the strongest earthquakes and bomb attacks, et al. Yeah! I'll be l33t!
I swear, every time I went there and saw all the space that they were preparing during their expansions - I just wanted to grab a skateboard or some blades and just ride around. Either that or an office chair:) Ohhh the raised floors were smooooth and the room was so biiiig. *sigh*
"crappy business plan"?? No! Just dotcom fallout! When I walked through there, it was INSANE the size of the cages for certain dotcoms. The whole friggin place was a dotcom castle. They charged a crapload of money and still got business. I mean, what are you going to do when your business is going great, and then the market crashes/goes back to normal, and all your customers die? How can you make a business plan that protects you from your customers and still make money?
I submitted this story yesterday, but via Ask Slashdot. I am curious to see what companies are doing these days as protection from the side-effects of dotcom fallout such as this. I know of a few co-location providers that have disappeared over the past couple years and wanted to know what steps people were taking to make sure that their data is up and running, even when the company that's storing their data is having financial difficulties and/or is closing down? How does one gauge the reliability of co-los?
(My previous company used Exodus and went through a long decision-making process to pick them. Now what? - I understand that they'll stay "in business" but what if?)
funny that in the middle of trying to post this,/. (hosted by exodus) becomes temporarily unavailable.....
I really hope that we don't have to hear the "Computer, pause recording. Yap yap yap yap yap. Computer, resume recording." shit, because man, I could NOT stop laughing. What a contrived load of bull. Look at me! I'm the captain and I can't think to myself in my own head! YAY!
Granted, you *could* say he was talking to the dog, but still...
Which brings me to the dog... This is our first ST pet huh? I'm curious as to when the dog saves the ship or when it becomes a pivotal plot figure:D
Oh excellent, so "once it's sold to one customer the original seller can't (and shouldn't) expect to make money from any additional sales of the same item" means....
I buy a cd. I copy it. I make mp3. I sell it to a friend for.01c. We are now free from having to pay anything to the artists/industry? I can start an music (re)distribution site and sell all the music for 1c provided I purchased it in the first place, and it'd be legit?
And I just spent $500+ on my spiffy Kenwood MP3 player. I guess I'll just have to get my MP3s to play in my car off those war3z sit3z and ftp3z.
Shame too, because all I was doing was making it more convenient to keep lots of music in my car. It also makes me happier as the person(s) who broke into my car is just a little more screwed since they won't be able to profit (oh, and not pay royalties) off the cds s/he stole.
So I take it this means that cd-duping is supposed to be eliminated ("more difficult")?
Really... I wonder when they're going to demand that used cd stores pay the record industries for the lost profits.
They tried. But who wants to buy 20+ VALinux boxes (still IN BOXES) in this market? VALinux wouldn't even take them back!! AFAIK, they're still sitting there in my old office, gathering dust. Such a shame....
It seems like it would be a stupid answer to this question being as UNIX code is generally cleaner than Windows code. My understanding is that the hackers are just trying to exploit weaknesses. The best solution for that is to not have weakness. And if you do, fix it (patching, etc). It seems that most viruses are written for MS products (ie Outlook) anyway, but being as UNIX programs or opensource programs are pretty clean and tight, there's not that worry.
I don't think there really is anything to be done differently....
it is great! Wow. This seems like it would make those science projects when we were kids where we used styrofoam balls and toothpicks really really elementary (ba dum dum). They look awesome! With just two pieces though, it seems like it would be really complicated for just a kid to make something. Though it also seems like it would be an easy way to sit there with pieces and just come up with something. To make the geometric shapes like on their site would require lots of pre-planning...
But they're LEGO COMPATIBLE!! werd b00ty. The combinations are limitless...
I'm gonna go buy some this weekend and see what they'll do with mindstorms:)
I thought they've already done this where part of the security for a network was to create a dummy network with "servers" that appeared to have ports open and services running, along with "workstations" et al. Theoretically, the hackers would attack the fake network and get distracted running around there instead of getting to the good stuff. Wouldn't that work for something like Nimda?
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Actually, it's more like my boyfriend knows I have a mrmalkav out there somewhere, and it's okay, just as it's okay for him to oogle rebar and naked buildings.;)
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Well, being as *I'm* not the structural engineer, my guess is that yes, the Tower itself is structurally sound as a tower, but the earth that it's standing on is not, thereby making the whole thing not structurally sound. Again, this is just conjecture as I don't know what the real official definition is of "structurally sound".
Regardless, the building did not fall down immediately. The building retained its structural integrity for approx 1hr. My understanding from what was discussed was that if there was no fire, it would have stayed standing the whole time.
*And*, forget ye not, "stopping tons of jet fuel from burning" includes the FIRE RETARDANT that is put on all the steel beams. Not just the fire *extinguishing* system. There's more to it than just sprinklers.
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The buildings were designed to withstand the impact. And they did. They were designed to go through bomb attacks - and like it was posted in/. earlier, the guy who designed it, made it such that a 727 could hit it and it wouldn't collapse.
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My boyfriend is a professional structural engineer who has done a lot of work on major LA buildings. He's currently attending Berkeley for a masters in Structural Engineering and, in chatting with his professors, came to this (paraphrased):
1) Yes, the buildings did withstand the impact of the airplanes. They didn't fall immediately, did they?
2) Buildings are built to a certain fire code, in that the building won't completely catch on fire and collapse for a certain length of time (usu 1hr?). The escape routes are located generally in the four corners. Since the plane took out one of them, this means that the required escape time is now 2+ hours.
3) Jet fuel burns with a much higher temperature than normal fuel.
4) Steel expands and crystalizes under extreme heat. Since the plane(s) hit at a "centre"-ish spot, the steel tried to expand up and down, but since the steel in the "up" and "down" weren't hot and wouldn't move, the steel in the "centre" buckled.
5) Since jetfuel burns hotter, step 4 happened faster and also reduced the "buckle" time by a certain amount - when used along with the increased escape time required, means that considerably fewer people would be able to escape.
6) Since the steel buckled, the upper floors now come crashing down on to the floor immediately below. Being as that floor is not suited to hold X number of upper floors MOVING rapidly at it, it collapsed and repeat until bottom.
Therefore, it was the fire that made the buildings collapse, not the impact of the planes.
Wow. Thank you, Google. I have been a faithful user of Google for a number of years now, but today I'm really impresesd. The person that thought to do that should get a cookie. That's damn good use of technology.
"In the City of God there will be a great thunder, Two brothers torn apart by Chaos, while the fortress endures, the great leader will succumb" , "The third big war will begin when the big city is burning" - Nostradamus 1654
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Now I have to remember that "PS2" stands for at least three things that I can think of right off the bat and that "port" stands for a bunch of things. Maybe we'll go ahead and replace common technical jargon with just 50 key words that mean at least 10 things a piece. That way, NO ONE will understand us and we'll totally be 31337.
"There are linux ps2 ports? ps2 mice and keyboards specifically made for linux boxen? huh?"
Uhm.. Well, where I live, I pay $90 for 1.5 down/384 up for DSL. I also pay an additional $20 for phone and $15 for long distance.
But what is this 8Mbps? or 8mpbs? or what? Someone want to fix the caps on that? If I could get 8Mbps/1Mbps for $100, HELL YEAH that would be a good deal.
$100 for more bandwidth vs $135 for less.
Where's the question?
Now all we need are inflatable music-making-devices and we can have a party in a bag!
How about creating a new form of boat parties where you ship out and set up the speakers floating in the water and you can swim around the sound for a totally Debussy-esque experience.
How about one of those bouncy inflatable houses that you see at fairs? We could have the COMPLETELY inflated house! (No golf shoes please)
As far as I can remember for back in the days when I worked on Macs, they did the same thing. They would play a tune to let you know if the RAM was bad or if some check failed on boot. I remember listening to my computer do RAM checks years ago. I doubt that that's an easter egg.
Though Fur Elise and It's a Small World are pretty friggin odd.
At my old company, we purchased a whole slew of really damned cheap (but fast!) Toshiba laptops. The AC adapters were so hot that quite a few users were afraid to touch them. I even caught someone putting their coffee mug on top of the AC adapter to keep it warm.
And if you call within the next 15 minutes, we'll throw in a FREE coffee warmer!
GE diversifies like mad. They really have a major problem being hurt. Have you seen their list of the companies they own?
But if you're talking about hosting services, GE owned or at least had a lot of stock in one of them that tanked. My understanding is that GE stuck it out until the bitter end and then had to move all their servers in one night to a new colo.
Exactly. But see, the problem w/ the difference between a living-in-a-colo dream vs the living-in-a-box-with-phatpipe is that it's not a cramped box filled with gear. I have always been inspired by Hiro and by Invisigoth ;) but they have small box-homes...
:D
my place would just be palatial. and enviro-controlled
the most damned funny commercial:
EVERYBODY DIES
from radio savant's ortho stint...
Oh that's right! I forgot about Data's cat. Janeway's dog doesn't count... ;) Apologies!
that if Exodus starts selling some of their real estate, my living-in-a-colo dream will come true! Screw that living in a wired warehouse crap. I want my building to be ON the backbone and protected from the strongest earthquakes and bomb attacks, et al. Yeah! I'll be l33t!
:) Ohhh the raised floors were smooooth and the room was so biiiig. *sigh*
I swear, every time I went there and saw all the space that they were preparing during their expansions - I just wanted to grab a skateboard or some blades and just ride around. Either that or an office chair
"crappy business plan"?? No! Just dotcom fallout! When I walked through there, it was INSANE the size of the cages for certain dotcoms. The whole friggin place was a dotcom castle. They charged a crapload of money and still got business. I mean, what are you going to do when your business is going great, and then the market crashes/goes back to normal, and all your customers die? How can you make a business plan that protects you from your customers and still make money?
(My previous company used Exodus and went through a long decision-making process to pick them. Now what? - I understand that they'll stay "in business" but what if?)
funny that in the middle of trying to post this, /. (hosted by exodus) becomes temporarily unavailable.....
I really hope that we don't have to hear the "Computer, pause recording. Yap yap yap yap yap. Computer, resume recording." shit, because man, I could NOT stop laughing. What a contrived load of bull. Look at me! I'm the captain and I can't think to myself in my own head! YAY!
:D
Granted, you *could* say he was talking to the dog, but still...
Which brings me to the dog... This is our first ST pet huh? I'm curious as to when the dog saves the ship or when it becomes a pivotal plot figure
Oh excellent, so "once it's sold to one customer the original seller can't (and shouldn't) expect to make money from any additional sales of the same item" means....
.01c. We are now free from having to pay anything to the artists/industry? I can start an music (re)distribution site and sell all the music for 1c provided I purchased it in the first place, and it'd be legit?
I buy a cd. I copy it. I make mp3. I sell it to a friend for
Kick ass!
And I just spent $500+ on my spiffy Kenwood MP3 player. I guess I'll just have to get my MP3s to play in my car off those war3z sit3z and ftp3z.
Shame too, because all I was doing was making it more convenient to keep lots of music in my car. It also makes me happier as the person(s) who broke into my car is just a little more screwed since they won't be able to profit (oh, and not pay royalties) off the cds s/he stole.
So I take it this means that cd-duping is supposed to be eliminated ("more difficult")?
Really... I wonder when they're going to demand that used cd stores pay the record industries for the lost profits.
Idiots. All of them.
liquidating the equipment themselves....
They tried. But who wants to buy 20+ VALinux boxes (still IN BOXES) in this market? VALinux wouldn't even take them back!! AFAIK, they're still sitting there in my old office, gathering dust. Such a shame....
It seems like it would be a stupid answer to this question being as UNIX code is generally cleaner than Windows code. My understanding is that the hackers are just trying to exploit weaknesses. The best solution for that is to not have weakness. And if you do, fix it (patching, etc). It seems that most viruses are written for MS products (ie Outlook) anyway, but being as UNIX programs or opensource programs are pretty clean and tight, there's not that worry.
I don't think there really is anything to be done differently....
it is great! Wow. This seems like it would make those science projects when we were kids where we used styrofoam balls and toothpicks really really elementary (ba dum dum). They look awesome! With just two pieces though, it seems like it would be really complicated for just a kid to make something. Though it also seems like it would be an easy way to sit there with pieces and just come up with something. To make the geometric shapes like on their site would require lots of pre-planning...
:)
But they're LEGO COMPATIBLE!! werd b00ty. The combinations are limitless...
I'm gonna go buy some this weekend and see what they'll do with mindstorms
-lisa
I thought they've already done this where part of the security for a network was to create a dummy network with "servers" that appeared to have ports open and services running, along with "workstations" et al. Theoretically, the hackers would attack the fake network and get distracted running around there instead of getting to the good stuff. Wouldn't that work for something like Nimda?
Actually, it's more like my boyfriend knows I have a mrmalkav out there somewhere, and it's okay, just as it's okay for him to oogle rebar and naked buildings. ;)
Well, being as *I'm* not the structural engineer, my guess is that yes, the Tower itself is structurally sound as a tower, but the earth that it's standing on is not, thereby making the whole thing not structurally sound. Again, this is just conjecture as I don't know what the real official definition is of "structurally sound".
Regardless, the building did not fall down immediately. The building retained its structural integrity for approx 1hr. My understanding from what was discussed was that if there was no fire, it would have stayed standing the whole time.
*And*, forget ye not, "stopping tons of jet fuel from burning" includes the FIRE RETARDANT that is put on all the steel beams. Not just the fire *extinguishing* system. There's more to it than just sprinklers.
The buildings were designed to withstand the impact. And they did. They were designed to go through bomb attacks - and like it was posted in /. earlier, the guy who designed it, made it such that a 727 could hit it and it wouldn't collapse.
My boyfriend is a professional structural engineer who has done a lot of work on major LA buildings. He's currently attending Berkeley for a masters in Structural Engineering and, in chatting with his professors, came to this (paraphrased):
1) Yes, the buildings did withstand the impact of the airplanes. They didn't fall immediately, did they?
2) Buildings are built to a certain fire code, in that the building won't completely catch on fire and collapse for a certain length of time (usu 1hr?). The escape routes are located generally in the four corners. Since the plane took out one of them, this means that the required escape time is now 2+ hours.
3) Jet fuel burns with a much higher temperature than normal fuel.
4) Steel expands and crystalizes under extreme heat. Since the plane(s) hit at a "centre"-ish spot, the steel tried to expand up and down, but since the steel in the "up" and "down" weren't hot and wouldn't move, the steel in the "centre" buckled.
5) Since jetfuel burns hotter, step 4 happened faster and also reduced the "buckle" time by a certain amount - when used along with the increased escape time required, means that considerably fewer people would be able to escape.
6) Since the steel buckled, the upper floors now come crashing down on to the floor immediately below. Being as that floor is not suited to hold X number of upper floors MOVING rapidly at it, it collapsed and repeat until bottom.
Therefore, it was the fire that made the buildings collapse, not the impact of the planes.
-mrsmalkav
Wow. Thank you, Google. I have been a faithful user of Google for a number of years now, but today I'm really impresesd. The person that thought to do that should get a cookie. That's damn good use of technology.
"In the City of God there will be a great thunder, Two brothers torn apart by Chaos, while the fortress endures, the great leader will succumb" , "The third big war will begin when the big city is burning" - Nostradamus 1654