As an Oregonian who has lived in several places across the state, I will have to propose amendments to your pieces of advice:
* Visit a McMennamin's hotel for lunch or dinner...
But don't expect good service or clean silverware.
* Fareless Square.
Get a concealed carry permit first.
* Don't swim in any river that Intel has named a chip for. Seriously. It's not their fault, but I mean it.
There's nothing wrong with the Deschutes. But then again, most of you Portlanders can't see past the top of Mt. Hood, so I don't expect you to know anything about Oregon's high desert.
Now, to add on to your advice:
* Visit one of the fine sushi places in Portland. Sushi Town in Hillsboro is good. Not the best, but good. * Visit Bend and go to the Deschutes Brewery if you want *truly good* beer. And good service. * If your a Finn, go to Junction City (that's just northwest of Eugene) during the Scandinavian Festival's Finland Day. * Don't take your kids to the Rose Festival carnival area. The ride operators deal drugs. * Avoid downtown Portland (and downtown Eugene) whenever the WTO is meeting in this hemisphere, when a major timber sale is scheduled to happen, when war breaks out, when the President is in the Pacific Northwest, or any other time when it is reasonable to forecast traffic-slowing protests. * Check out Ashland at least once. * Get a Shedrain umbrella. * The air sucks in Eugene.
My VAIO really only gets hot when it is charging, and I usually charge it over night, so that's not an issue.
How hot do other people's machines get? FWIW, I'm typing this right now with my laptop sitting on my bare legs. (I'm wearing shorts, perv!) It can get a bit warm when it's charging, but never so hot that I'm compelled to get it off of me.
All I said that the majority of the transfers done via DCC are for pirated files.
You're probably right, and normally I don't feed trolls like you, (I've been reading up un the thread), but where's your proof? If you don't have direct proof, where is your source?
Perhaps you just took a blind guess, and therefore are full of shit because you didn't do the research before you made your claim.
Do you really believe that the developers of Linux, Gaim, Windows, BSD and/or Unix, and basically every other piece of widely used software, were lazy or inattentive?
Yes. I don't mean it in a derogatory way, though. I have been guilty of being lazy or inattentive when I code, as well.
The solution is code audits, either by the author or another party, or simply taking the time to look at what you are doing when you start a statment that manipulates pointers or arrays. Quite often having another person take a look at the code suffices. I've found overflows and overruns in a few programs.
I bet you don't like seatbelts (only poor drivers need them!) or hospitals (just for people who are careless and don't look after themselves!) either.
No, but the OP's suggestion was analagous to requiring me to visit a hospital for a paper cut, when I could fix it myself with a band-aid.
C does not cause buffer overruns. Hasty/lazy/etc. code does.
String boundary checking SHOULD be a feature of any modern language
Yes, because the programmer can't be bothered to write good code. Give me a break.
or do you enjoy buffer overflow exploits?
Most buffer overflow exploits can be cured by simply not blindly using strcpy() when the data is untrusted, and keeping track of how full your buffer is for non-string arrays.
String buffer overflow avoidance can be as simple as replacing strcpy(dest_buf, src_buf); with strncpy(dest_buf, src_buf, BUF_SIZE-1); *(dest_buf+BUF_SIZE)=0; as long as you don't mind the buffer being truncated.
Of course, you could also do length checking, too, with strlen. Spit out an error or do whatever if it won't fit in the buffer. That's also not hard.
Buffer overflow problems are indicative of a lazy or inattentive programmer. I won't go far as to say that only lazy/inattentive programmers are unhappy with C's lack of string (array, really) boundary checking, but it seems to me that it is really easy to avoid.
The first version of Forth I ever used compiled to 6502. Totally different implementation than the one described in the book "Threaded Interpretive Languages", but the same syntax.
Of course, new words ended up being compiled to mostly a bunch of JSR instructions and calls to push().
When I made a Forth interpreter, I ripped off directly from the TIL book. I was going to make a compiled one, but never got around to it.
Any one thing ham can do, something else can do better.
You've got to be kidding me, right?
Hams have been at the forefront of some of the biggest technilogical advances in communications over the last century.
Perhaps you've heard of Phil Karn, also known as KA9Q? He is one of the larger contributers to the development of the Internet and other computer communications technologies. While it was still ARPANET we were using his TCP/IP stack. He and many other hams around the world have contributed directly and indirectly to the technology you take for granted every day. Many of the people on that list who contributed to the advancment of communication technology drew upon their experience as hams.
Anyway the internet does the thing for people where they can talk to people in other countries for free, and they can have video, too.
(Patented Sarcasm Mode) You talk to people in other countries for free using the internet? I pay my ISP for the privilege. You must have a pretty sweet deal.
I paid for my ham radio once. I paid a small fee to take my ham test. A year's worth of internet access costs more than the both of them combined.
And we all know that hams never send video.(/Patented Sarcasm Mode)
As many other people have pointed out in this forum, it isn't just the merit of ham radio in question. There are also non-ham communications issues, and one simple question that remains unanswered:
Why allow so much spectrum to be lost to "harmful interference" when it doesn't have to be?
Ham radio is cool. The idea of being able to build a radio with which you can speak to people in other countries is fantastic. But, there are valid replacements. The only real defense is the hobby issue, and I'm not sure that's going to end up being sufficient. Generally speaking it's money that speaks the loudest.
What valid replacement is there for the knowledge and experience gained by hams as they progress in their 'hobby'?
What valid replacement is there for all of the skilled electronic/communication technicians that will no longer exist because their 'hobby' is depleted?
Amateur radio got me interested in electronics. It wasn't the other way around.
There is also the fact that for atmospheric reflection, not all frequencies bend at the same angle (think prism). An FM signal gets smashed in the upper atmosphere due to the nature of its transmission method, so not much sky-wave propagation is taking place even when FM is used at lower frequencies.
I've got a '70 Mustang with 190K on the clock. Ran fine before I took the engine out. (It needed new head gaskets and the intake manifold was cracked, but it ran well).
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Hey! WTF is wrong with Subaru?!
Sorry, I should have said "Subaru GL or equivalent."
Though to be honest, between the two Subarus my parents owned, I can't say I'd buy one. (Though they weren't Imprezas.)
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What possible use could you have for a 340-350hp car? [snip] Have I missed something?
Uh, pulling a trailer? (IOW: Hauling shit around.)
And yeah, before you spout off about the fact that you didn't mean SUVs or trucks, I can pull a boat or small RV trailer behind my 1970 Mustang.
It is also nice to be able to merge onto a freeway from a short on-ramp at the speed traffic is going. Vanagon-loving hippies here just can't seem to do it with their air-cooled 50 HP engine.
FWIW, the car I usually drive is 150 H.P. and gets 35 MPG.
"Huge new manufacturing facility to be constructed in $US_STATE?"
Most of us don't care. They come and they go, but as a counterexample, KEZI TV in Eugene, Oregon, had a top news story not a week ago about Intel's announcment that it was building a new fab in Oregon.
Just because it's not on Slashdot doesn't mean it isn't happening. I'd suggest you don't use Slashdot as your only news source, or you will suffer permanent brain damage.
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The problem is getting all those Unix users to run it as root.
Exactly. I believe the WinXP raw socket API is available to all users, unlike *nix where it is restricted to root.
Besides, even if it is restricted to users with admin priveleges, how many people run their Windows XP machine (especially "Home Edition") with administrator priveleges? A lot, I'd wager.
I do *not* want electronic textbooks. Paper is 1000 times easier to use. It's a lot faster to pull out a book and turn to a page then try to look through one electronically.
What about poor students who cannot afford a laptop/reader?
If you assume that the school can print them... well, at least at my school, you lose color printing and solid binding.
(This all leaves out the fact that the market is bearing the current price of textbooks, not that I am happy with it. Oh, and since this is the case, if all textbooks are electronic, won't prices simply go back up to the market price?)
Hey now, that's the one that has some of my code in it. Of course, I don't make any money off of it, and it's one of the obfuscated code contest 2nd-place entries... but I like knowing it's out there.
Yeah. Double-digit inflation did nothing good for the average person trying to make a living, no matter how much GDP increased. I am aware that it wasn't his fault it happened, but he didn't do much to try and correct it, either.
Are we seeing a pattern here?
I won't dispute that, but really the debt is less of a problem over time, as long as it doesn't continually increase more than time - inflation bottoms its actual cost. Of course, as you point out, some presidents have a problem with that part.
Seriously... what do these people have on their primary work desks, and in the drawers?
Does RMS have a glass pipe and a couple of buds in the top drawer?
Does ESR have a pistol in the bottom side drawer?
Does G.W. Bush have a golden pen that's dedicated to the veto, but never been used?
What kind of desk configuration do they prefer? Something like the extravagant desk of the Oval Office, to something simple and effective, like my $50 U-put-it-together computer desk?
presiding over the greatest economic expansion in the history of the world
Clinton presided over the biggest investor and consumer rip-off in the history of the world.
Perhaps you remember this joke:
1. Start e-Company with catchy name. 2. ??? 3. PROFIT!
The #2 is, of course, "2.1 Take millions of investment dollars from investors encouraged by the Clinton administration to invest in the 'information superhighway.' 2.2 Use it to pay company executives millions of dollars. 2.3 Pay the workers minimum wage and stock options. 2.4 Fold the company."
Note that the Clinton SEC, FBI, and Department of Justice neglected to check up on companies like Enron, MCI-Worldcom, Qwest, and all the dot-coms that ripped off their investors. While they were fucking their customers and their investors, the executives were collecting millions of dollars.
Most of them got away with it, and retired in little places like Bend, Oregon. A town that doubled in population as the dot-com busts happened. All these 30- to 40-something millionaires moving in with their SUVs and "I 0wn3d j00" attitudes.
It wasn't until the Bush administration took office that any government agency did anything to stop the corruption. It wasn't the Clinton administration that discovered all the creative accounting practices in big companies, it was during the Bush administration. Despite all the connections people try to draw ("but Cheney owned Enron stock!"/Board of Directors/Took campaign donations/etc.)... well, lots of people owned Enron stock, and MCI stock, and Qwest stock, held positions of influence, etc. Doesn't mean they controlled the puppet strings of the executives and accountants.
Yes, Bill Clinton presided over the greatest economic expansion in history. And it was fake, based on theft and lies.
Oh, and some notable Republican administrations include Lincoln and Eisenhower, who ended slavery (and preserved the Union) and created the most effective highway system ever seen, respectively. Oh, and then there is Nixon, who despite Watergate still managed to get us out of Vietnam and bring us the Democratic's beloved EPA. Reagan is notable because he saved us from Carter, not to mention winning the cold war by having the best poker face on record.
Understanding the whole structure is obviously desirable for a citizen, but it's a challenge.
That I will admit. I'm not an expert, either. I just happen to be more involved in government and politics, I guess. You at least have a good handle on exactly how big the bureaucracy is, and how many seemingly repetitive tasks there are.
The basic rule is that Offices, under the Executive Office of the President (or Councils, in some cases) work directly for the President.
The Departments are all headed by Cabinet members. Bureaus, Services, and Administrations tend to fall under the Departments, e.g. FBI under DOJ under Office of Homeland Security and Bureau of the Census under Dept. of Commerce.
Some entities are independent (GSA, EPA, Federal Reserve, FDA, FCC, SEC, NRC, etc.) and do not really answer to anybody but the whole of Congress, though the President appoints the heads of these agencies on a term basis. (With consent of the Senate.)
You missed one thing that is also part of the Federal system: Federal Corporations, like the FDIC, TVA, Amtrak, NCUA and the USPS.
It's definitely complex. It's amazing it even works.
I think most Americans respect the Census department. But I can't quite see them leading a coup. "Stand up and be counted!" Well, it does have a certain ring to it...
It's a shame that people don't know the basic organizational structure of the executive bureaucracy. (Unless you are not a U.S. citizen, which is a valid reason to not know.)
The usual reason I'm not able to sleep? Because I've got something I need to do! If I have a problem to work on, I can't just shut my brain off and go to sleep. I'll lay on the bed thinking about it... all... night... long.
It's frustrating. Both that I don't have the problem finished, and that I'm not sleeping.
Solution? Sleeping pills.
In any case, there aren't enough hours in the day to get things done, so I really only sleep 5-6 hours a night.
If you need a high availability service (DNS comes to mind) with minimal downtime a "pizza box" is a great unit. It will run forever and a day until some hardware finally gives out. That may take a while too as they aren't super-mass produced shit, they're decently engineered equipment.
I agree. I've got a SparcStation 10 running local DNS, DHCP and serving nfs. Oh, it also handles log data from network equipment, too.
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As an Oregonian who has lived in several places across the state, I will have to propose amendments to your pieces of advice:
* Visit a McMennamin's hotel for lunch or dinner...
But don't expect good service or clean silverware.
* Fareless Square.
Get a concealed carry permit first.
* Don't swim in any river that Intel has named a chip for. Seriously. It's not their fault, but I mean it.
There's nothing wrong with the Deschutes. But then again, most of you Portlanders can't see past the top of Mt. Hood, so I don't expect you to know anything about Oregon's high desert.
Now, to add on to your advice:
* Visit one of the fine sushi places in Portland. Sushi Town in Hillsboro is good. Not the best, but good.
* Visit Bend and go to the Deschutes Brewery if you want *truly good* beer. And good service.
* If your a Finn, go to Junction City (that's just northwest of Eugene) during the Scandinavian Festival's Finland Day.
* Don't take your kids to the Rose Festival carnival area. The ride operators deal drugs.
* Avoid downtown Portland (and downtown Eugene) whenever the WTO is meeting in this hemisphere, when a major timber sale is scheduled to happen, when war breaks out, when the President is in the Pacific Northwest, or any other time when it is reasonable to forecast traffic-slowing protests.
* Check out Ashland at least once.
* Get a Shedrain umbrella.
* The air sucks in Eugene.
Well, that's about all I can think of.
Why didn't someone think of this sooner?
They did... get a good pair of jeans.
My VAIO really only gets hot when it is charging, and I usually charge it over night, so that's not an issue.
How hot do other people's machines get? FWIW, I'm typing this right now with my laptop sitting on my bare legs. (I'm wearing shorts, perv!) It can get a bit warm when it's charging, but never so hot that I'm compelled to get it off of me.
All I said that the majority of the transfers done via DCC are for pirated files.
You're probably right, and normally I don't feed trolls like you, (I've been reading up un the thread), but where's your proof? If you don't have direct proof, where is your source?
Perhaps you just took a blind guess, and therefore are full of shit because you didn't do the research before you made your claim.
Do you really believe that the developers of Linux, Gaim, Windows, BSD and/or Unix, and basically every other piece of widely used software, were lazy or inattentive?
Yes. I don't mean it in a derogatory way, though. I have been guilty of being lazy or inattentive when I code, as well.
The solution is code audits, either by the author or another party, or simply taking the time to look at what you are doing when you start a statment that manipulates pointers or arrays. Quite often having another person take a look at the code suffices. I've found overflows and overruns in a few programs.
I bet you don't like seatbelts (only poor drivers need them!) or hospitals (just for people who are careless and don't look after themselves!) either.
No, but the OP's suggestion was analagous to requiring me to visit a hospital for a paper cut, when I could fix it myself with a band-aid.
C does not cause buffer overruns. Hasty/lazy/etc. code does.
String boundary checking SHOULD be a feature of any modern language
Yes, because the programmer can't be bothered to write good code. Give me a break.
or do you enjoy buffer overflow exploits?
Most buffer overflow exploits can be cured by simply not blindly using strcpy() when the data is untrusted, and keeping track of how full your buffer is for non-string arrays.
String buffer overflow avoidance can be as simple as replacing strcpy(dest_buf, src_buf); with strncpy(dest_buf, src_buf, BUF_SIZE-1); *(dest_buf+BUF_SIZE)=0; as long as you don't mind the buffer being truncated.
Of course, you could also do length checking, too, with strlen. Spit out an error or do whatever if it won't fit in the buffer. That's also not hard.
Buffer overflow problems are indicative of a lazy or inattentive programmer. I won't go far as to say that only lazy/inattentive programmers are unhappy with C's lack of string (array, really) boundary checking, but it seems to me that it is really easy to avoid.
Forth?
The first version of Forth I ever used compiled to 6502. Totally different implementation than the one described in the book "Threaded Interpretive Languages", but the same syntax.
Of course, new words ended up being compiled to mostly a bunch of JSR instructions and calls to push().
When I made a Forth interpreter, I ripped off directly from the TIL book. I was going to make a compiled one, but never got around to it.
Any one thing ham can do, something else can do better.
You've got to be kidding me, right?
Hams have been at the forefront of some of the biggest technilogical advances in communications over the last century.
Perhaps you've heard of Phil Karn, also known as KA9Q? He is one of the larger contributers to the development of the Internet and other computer communications technologies. While it was still ARPANET we were using his TCP/IP stack. He and many other hams around the world have contributed directly and indirectly to the technology you take for granted every day. Many of the people on that list who contributed to the advancment of communication technology drew upon their experience as hams.
Anyway the internet does the thing for people where they can talk to people in other countries for free, and they can have video, too.
(Patented Sarcasm Mode) You talk to people in other countries for free using the internet? I pay my ISP for the privilege. You must have a pretty sweet deal.
I paid for my ham radio once. I paid a small fee to take my ham test. A year's worth of internet access costs more than the both of them combined.
And we all know that hams never send video.(/Patented Sarcasm Mode)
As many other people have pointed out in this forum, it isn't just the merit of ham radio in question. There are also non-ham communications issues, and one simple question that remains unanswered:
Why allow so much spectrum to be lost to "harmful interference" when it doesn't have to be?
Ham radio is cool. The idea of being able to build a radio with which you can speak to people in other countries is fantastic. But, there are valid replacements. The only real defense is the hobby issue, and I'm not sure that's going to end up being sufficient. Generally speaking it's money that speaks the loudest.
What valid replacement is there for the knowledge and experience gained by hams as they progress in their 'hobby'?
What valid replacement is there for all of the skilled electronic/communication technicians that will no longer exist because their 'hobby' is depleted?
Amateur radio got me interested in electronics. It wasn't the other way around.
There is also the fact that for atmospheric reflection, not all frequencies bend at the same angle (think prism). An FM signal gets smashed in the upper atmosphere due to the nature of its transmission method, so not much sky-wave propagation is taking place even when FM is used at lower frequencies.
If you want to run an X Server on Windows 95, you're free to try one of the commercial implementations.
Or use the one from Cygwin. I use it anytime I am forced to use Windows and want to use X11 apps or use my Linux box remotely. It works well.
I have a 90 mustang 5.0 with 168k on the clock.
I've got a '70 Mustang with 190K on the clock. Ran fine before I took the engine out. (It needed new head gaskets and the intake manifold was cracked, but it ran well).
Hey! WTF is wrong with Subaru?!
Sorry, I should have said "Subaru GL or equivalent."
Though to be honest, between the two Subarus my parents owned, I can't say I'd buy one. (Though they weren't Imprezas.)
What possible use could you have for a 340-350hp car? [snip] Have I missed something?
Uh, pulling a trailer? (IOW: Hauling shit around.)
And yeah, before you spout off about the fact that you didn't mean SUVs or trucks, I can pull a boat or small RV trailer behind my 1970 Mustang.
It is also nice to be able to merge onto a freeway from a short on-ramp at the speed traffic is going. Vanagon-loving hippies here just can't seem to do it with their air-cooled 50 HP engine.
FWIW, the car I usually drive is 150 H.P. and gets 35 MPG.
(I bet *you* drive a Subaru.)
That's priceless. Mind if I snag that as my sig?
:)
Not at all
Let's hope its done with those two-way phones they have in prison visiter rooms.
As opposed to all the one-way phones out there?
How there are never stories titled:
"Huge new manufacturing facility to be constructed in $US_STATE?"
Most of us don't care. They come and they go, but as a counterexample, KEZI TV in Eugene, Oregon, had a top news story not a week ago about Intel's announcment that it was building a new fab in Oregon.
Just because it's not on Slashdot doesn't mean it isn't happening. I'd suggest you don't use Slashdot as your only news source, or you will suffer permanent brain damage.
The problem is getting all those Unix users to run it as root.
Exactly. I believe the WinXP raw socket API is available to all users, unlike *nix where it is restricted to root.
Besides, even if it is restricted to users with admin priveleges, how many people run their Windows XP machine (especially "Home Edition") with administrator priveleges? A lot, I'd wager.
Is electronic textbook publishing the way to go?
I do *not* want electronic textbooks. Paper is 1000 times easier to use. It's a lot faster to pull out a book and turn to a page then try to look through one electronically.
What about poor students who cannot afford a laptop/reader?
If you assume that the school can print them... well, at least at my school, you lose color printing and solid binding.
(This all leaves out the fact that the market is bearing the current price of textbooks, not that I am happy with it. Oh, and since this is the case, if all textbooks are electronic, won't prices simply go back up to the market price?)
I'd skip volume 3
Hey now, that's the one that has some of my code in it. Of course, I don't make any money off of it, and it's one of the obfuscated code contest 2nd-place entries... but I like knowing it's out there.
Saved us from Carter?
Yeah. Double-digit inflation did nothing good for the average person trying to make a living, no matter how much GDP increased. I am aware that it wasn't his fault it happened, but he didn't do much to try and correct it, either.
Are we seeing a pattern here?
I won't dispute that, but really the debt is less of a problem over time, as long as it doesn't continually increase more than time - inflation bottoms its actual cost. Of course, as you point out, some presidents have a problem with that part.
Seriously... what do these people have on their primary work desks, and in the drawers?
Does RMS have a glass pipe and a couple of buds in the top drawer?
Does ESR have a pistol in the bottom side drawer?
Does G.W. Bush have a golden pen that's dedicated to the veto, but never been used?
What kind of desk configuration do they prefer? Something like the extravagant desk of the Oval Office, to something simple and effective, like my $50 U-put-it-together computer desk?
... creating the United Nations ...
You say that like it's a good thing.
presiding over the greatest economic expansion in the history of the world
Clinton presided over the biggest investor and consumer rip-off in the history of the world.
Perhaps you remember this joke:
1. Start e-Company with catchy name.
2. ???
3. PROFIT!
The #2 is, of course, "2.1 Take millions of investment dollars from investors encouraged by the Clinton administration to invest in the 'information superhighway.' 2.2 Use it to pay company executives millions of dollars. 2.3 Pay the workers minimum wage and stock options. 2.4 Fold the company."
Note that the Clinton SEC, FBI, and Department of Justice neglected to check up on companies like Enron, MCI-Worldcom, Qwest, and all the dot-coms that ripped off their investors. While they were fucking their customers and their investors, the executives were collecting millions of dollars.
Most of them got away with it, and retired in little places like Bend, Oregon. A town that doubled in population as the dot-com busts happened. All these 30- to 40-something millionaires moving in with their SUVs and "I 0wn3d j00" attitudes.
It wasn't until the Bush administration took office that any government agency did anything to stop the corruption. It wasn't the Clinton administration that discovered all the creative accounting practices in big companies, it was during the Bush administration. Despite all the connections people try to draw ("but Cheney owned Enron stock!"/Board of Directors/Took campaign donations/etc.)... well, lots of people owned Enron stock, and MCI stock, and Qwest stock, held positions of influence, etc. Doesn't mean they controlled the puppet strings of the executives and accountants.
Yes, Bill Clinton presided over the greatest economic expansion in history. And it was fake, based on theft and lies.
Oh, and some notable Republican administrations include Lincoln and Eisenhower, who ended slavery (and preserved the Union) and created the most effective highway system ever seen, respectively. Oh, and then there is Nixon, who despite Watergate still managed to get us out of Vietnam and bring us the Democratic's beloved EPA. Reagan is notable because he saved us from Carter, not to mention winning the cold war by having the best poker face on record.
Understanding the whole structure is obviously desirable for a citizen, but it's a challenge.
That I will admit. I'm not an expert, either. I just happen to be more involved in government and politics, I guess. You at least have a good handle on exactly how big the bureaucracy is, and how many seemingly repetitive tasks there are.
The basic rule is that Offices, under the Executive Office of the President (or Councils, in some cases) work directly for the President.
The Departments are all headed by Cabinet members. Bureaus, Services, and Administrations tend to fall under the Departments, e.g. FBI under DOJ under Office of Homeland Security and Bureau of the Census under Dept. of Commerce.
Some entities are independent (GSA, EPA, Federal Reserve, FDA, FCC, SEC, NRC, etc.) and do not really answer to anybody but the whole of Congress, though the President appoints the heads of these agencies on a term basis. (With consent of the Senate.)
You missed one thing that is also part of the Federal system: Federal Corporations, like the FDIC, TVA, Amtrak, NCUA and the USPS.
It's definitely complex. It's amazing it even works.
I think most Americans respect the Census department. But I can't quite see them leading a coup. "Stand up and be counted!" Well, it does have a certain ring to it...
The census is handled by a Bureau, not a Department. The Census Bureau is part of the Department of Commerce.
It's a shame that people don't know the basic organizational structure of the executive bureaucracy. (Unless you are not a U.S. citizen, which is a valid reason to not know.)
I have insomnia.
The usual reason I'm not able to sleep? Because I've got something I need to do! If I have a problem to work on, I can't just shut my brain off and go to sleep. I'll lay on the bed thinking about it... all... night... long.
It's frustrating. Both that I don't have the problem finished, and that I'm not sleeping.
Solution? Sleeping pills.
In any case, there aren't enough hours in the day to get things done, so I really only sleep 5-6 hours a night.
If you need a high availability service (DNS comes to mind) with minimal downtime a "pizza box" is a great unit. It will run forever and a day until some hardware finally gives out. That may take a while too as they aren't super-mass produced shit, they're decently engineered equipment.
I agree. I've got a SparcStation 10 running local DNS, DHCP and serving nfs. Oh, it also handles log data from network equipment, too.The only reason it hasn't been up longer than 83 days is I have to blow the dust out of it about every 180 days.
I'm running Aurora Linux on it, and plan to upgrad e it with a 2nd processor one of these days.