(2) In regards to CA and restraining orders, the second amendment doesn't give you the right to constantly hang around someone.
I think the parent poster is saying that, in California, if a restraining order is issued against you, you're no longer allowed to have guns. This sounds far too unconstitutional to be true, but California's always been weird.
Oh, I'd love it! You could have multiplayer FPS games with your neighbors at LAN speeds!
What kind of connection to the rest of the 'net would there be, though? A 100 MB/s connection to your neighbors isn't much good if there's only a 1 MB/s connection to the rest of the internet.
Could a non-edu get connected to Internet2? That would be even better!
Speed must vary greatly from system to system, then. I use Knoppix from CD on the lab computers (P4 1.7, 128MB RAM, no swap partition) at school occasionally and it runs quite well for web browsing and photo-editing with the Gimp.
I've never needed to replace something in one of my desktop machines (at home and at work) that would've been worth the price of a ~$200 warranty, but laptops are another story. Dell CompleteCare for laptops gives excellent service - next-day, on-site techs and it even covers abuse. $250 or so for the warranty is a lot better than paying parts and labor for a new LCD.
I contend that many companies don't look at prior military service as an asset. Many companies don't operate like the military, and expertise in a large, bloated organization is usually exactly what managers DON'T need. They need fast, independent thinkers.
In an ideal world, yes. However, reality is far from ideal.
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The NIC can't run anything. There's no flash or EPROM on it. There's no way for it to force the CPU to execute code. I't can't do a damn thing but perform I/O instructions.
Let's read up on PC hardware initialization, shall we?
Adapter cards on the I/O bus can be configured to present an initialization program in ROM memory somewhere in the middle 128K of free addresses. In hex , these addresses are represented as C0000 to DFFFF. Each time the system is initialized, the POST program scans this area for initialization programs and runs any that it finds. This mechanism allows the display adapter to initialize itself properly (no matter which vendor or model of adapter card you own). Code on the SCSI card makes up to two SCSI disks visible and usable to DOS programs. Code on the LAN adapter will boot a diskless workstation from a LAN server.
I guess you aren't entirely wrong: this isn't really 'forcing' the CPU to do anything, since it exists by design.
Once that timed out, boot sequence continued to the message "NTLDR not found"! In an attempt to do a PXE net boot, the new NIC had -rewritten my boot sector!-
And you know this how, exactly? Did you try rebooting the machine with the card removed? I had a similar problem with an Intel NIC that wanted to netboot, but fixing the problem was a simple matter of telling the card not to netboot in its BIOS setup. Obviously it wouldn't be impossible for a NIC to rewrite your boot sector (since it's running unrestricted code when the system BIOS initializes it) but it's extremely unlikely.
Wouldn't it be possible to make them work at 180Hz instead of 120 (am I wrong about these numbers?)
No doubt it would be possible to run flourescent lights at a frequency higher than 60/50 Hz (frequency of household line power AC in USA/everywhere else, respectively), but that would require delivering power at that frequency -by reworking all the generators and frequency-dependent devices.
That's not likely to be an acceptable solution when the computer in question is a server than your business depends on to make money. Not everyone one the net is a home user who can take a few hours' break at whim.
This "problem" is not caused by the existence of the Registry, but by dumb admins who allow booting of alternate media.
That's not to say the Registry is wonderful, of course..
While the systems can use 4GB of RAM, applications can't have the entire 4GB. RAM must be split into two segments - OS and Apps - usually a 2/2 or 1/3 split.
Logic would have it that there should be no problem here. If an organization has implemented a filtering/blocking system, it should have a clear policy as to what is not allowed. And given that most filtering systems use vendor-supplied lists, it is quite possible that the lists will contain sites that are not forbidden by the policy. The restriction on those sites ought to be removable, then.
The approval/disapproval trickiness begins with the implementation of any filtering policy, not just with unblocking of sites.
Just goes to show why filtering on sender alone is useless, since the From: line isn't authenticated and can contain absolutely anything. A tool like SpamAssassin that checks multiple criteria can be much more effective.
Logically, customers would be able build their own binaries. Seeing the source and letting MS do the building would be no better than not seeing the source at all, since you'd have no proof that the binaries generated actually came from the same source you saw.
And what about clueless management? You might know that, for example, an upstream provider is crap but you can't switch without management approval. Or perhaps a bad vendor that you can't replace without management approval.
In a perfect world, we could just leave sucky jobs like that at a moment's notice - but this isn't a perfect world. It's a world with a less-than-excellent job market and lots of people are pretty much stuck where they are for now.
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(2) In regards to CA and restraining orders, the second amendment doesn't give you the right to constantly hang around someone.
I think the parent poster is saying that, in California, if a restraining order is issued against you, you're no longer allowed to have guns. This sounds far too unconstitutional to be true, but California's always been weird.
How do you emulate the price of an Intel notebook on a Mac?
And if you think that's an acceptable subsitute for a normal keypad on a desktop keyboard, you should stick to making ignorant comments on slashdot.
Even shared with 9,000 other homes, you'd like 1MB/s?
Oh, I'd love it! You could have multiplayer FPS games with your neighbors at LAN speeds! What kind of connection to the rest of the 'net would there be, though? A 100 MB/s connection to your neighbors isn't much good if there's only a 1 MB/s connection to the rest of the internet. Could a non-edu get connected to Internet2? That would be even better!
Speed must vary greatly from system to system, then. I use Knoppix from CD on the lab computers (P4 1.7, 128MB RAM, no swap partition) at school occasionally and it runs quite well for web browsing and photo-editing with the Gimp.
I've never needed to replace something in one of my desktop machines (at home and at work) that would've been worth the price of a ~$200 warranty, but laptops are another story. Dell CompleteCare for laptops gives excellent service - next-day, on-site techs and it even covers abuse. $250 or so for the warranty is a lot better than paying parts and labor for a new LCD.
I contend that many companies don't look at prior military service as an asset. Many companies don't operate like the military, and expertise in a large, bloated organization is usually exactly what managers DON'T need. They need fast, independent thinkers.
In an ideal world, yes. However, reality is far from ideal.
The NIC can't run anything. There's no flash or EPROM on it. There's no way for it to force the CPU to execute code. I't can't do a damn thing but perform I/O instructions.
Let's read up on PC hardware initialization, shall we?
I guess you aren't entirely wrong: this isn't really 'forcing' the CPU to do anything, since it exists by design.Once that timed out, boot sequence continued to the message "NTLDR not found"! In an attempt to do a PXE net boot, the new NIC had -rewritten my boot sector!-
And you know this how, exactly? Did you try rebooting the machine with the card removed? I had a similar problem with an Intel NIC that wanted to netboot, but fixing the problem was a simple matter of telling the card not to netboot in its BIOS setup. Obviously it wouldn't be impossible for a NIC to rewrite your boot sector (since it's running unrestricted code when the system BIOS initializes it) but it's extremely unlikely.
Can we get a standards-compliant browser or two that actually works first, before we worry about adding on silly, useless features?
Wouldn't it be possible to make them work at 180Hz instead of 120 (am I wrong about these numbers?)
No doubt it would be possible to run flourescent lights at a frequency higher than 60/50 Hz (frequency of household line power AC in USA/everywhere else, respectively), but that would require delivering power at that frequency -by reworking all the generators and frequency-dependent devices.
There is still the issue that they contain mercury, though.
That, and they flicker and give off a totally unnatural colored light.
That's not likely to be an acceptable solution when the computer in question is a server than your business depends on to make money. Not everyone one the net is a home user who can take a few hours' break at whim.
Confusing math here: 12GB / 6 ISOs = 2GB/ISO Aren't CD images usually 600-700MB?
Your first sentance has no subject.
Wrong. ("it" is the subject)
Your second sentance has no verb.
Wrong. ("was" is the verb)
Maybe if yu combine the two it could make one sentance but you would probably also have to cut out a lot.
Totally unnecessary.
The original poster's message is perfectly clear while yours is objectively wrong and riddled with spelling errors.
Although i am not one to point out english mistakes in posts all the time
Please refrain from doing so until you've actually learned the rules of spelling and grammar.
please read your post out loud.
Taking your own advice might be a good idea.
This "problem" is not caused by the existence of the Registry, but by dumb admins who allow booting of alternate media. That's not to say the Registry is wonderful, of course..
And MIPS. Last seen in NT4.
While the systems can use 4GB of RAM, applications can't have the entire 4GB. RAM must be split into two segments - OS and Apps - usually a 2/2 or 1/3 split.
Logic would have it that there should be no problem here. If an organization has implemented a filtering/blocking system, it should have a clear policy as to what is not allowed. And given that most filtering systems use vendor-supplied lists, it is quite possible that the lists will contain sites that are not forbidden by the policy. The restriction on those sites ought to be removable, then.
The approval/disapproval trickiness begins with the implementation of any filtering policy, not just with unblocking of sites.
Just goes to show why filtering on sender alone is useless, since the From: line isn't authenticated and can contain absolutely anything. A tool like SpamAssassin that checks multiple criteria can be much more effective.
Logically, customers would be able build their own binaries. Seeing the source and letting MS do the building would be no better than not seeing the source at all, since you'd have no proof that the binaries generated actually came from the same source you saw.
And what about clueless management? You might know that, for example, an upstream provider is crap but you can't switch without management approval. Or perhaps a bad vendor that you can't replace without management approval.
In a perfect world, we could just leave sucky jobs like that at a moment's notice - but this isn't a perfect world. It's a world with a less-than-excellent job market and lots of people are pretty much stuck where they are for now.
If you are having DB or other problems "multiple nigths in a row" you are doing something wrong. Learn to do your job.
As long as there are users, there will be problems (or at least calls) no matter how good the admin is.EULA = End User License Agreement
Kazaa is not being sued by end users but by third parties (i.e. music industry). Thus the EULA is irrelevant here.