Instead of filtering on that, just send off a note to the manager - that should get some attention.
"Bob, it seems you've been visiting freeteensex.com/natalieportman/members a lot these past few days. It's one of my favorite sites too, but damn it man! You don't even have a door on your cube! Think about the harassment suit the girls in the office could bring against us!"
What really sucks about the lameness filter is that it still triggers that damned 70 second wait... so I can't just fix a few things and get on with things... I have to wait, and wait and wait...
oh well, the joys of reality in an abused public forum.
As another poster noted - this waste of space is most troublesome in embedded systems, but hey - you should have a special compiler for that anyway - problem solved. Besides, we waste more memory with that @$#&@%! animated paperclip...
Ah, but *I* can't read those pages, so they must not exist [/typical American]
In fact, I'm going to continue my lobby for a separate language - American! Heck, we never use 'bobby'm 'lorry' or 'wc'. Not to mention 'football' means something different in American than English or any other language. We'll stick with our 'coney dogs' and other fun local slang. [/stupidity]
We should at least make English the national language, and make it a crime to conduct schools and buisnesses in other languages [/John Rocker]
Guess I can't win... though I'd rather not. ASCII isn't going away anytime soon, but Unicode is a Good Thing TM.
Actually, a lot of the AS/400 text (internal to drivers/OS) is all EBCDIC - some of it was just converted from ASCII a couple of years ago. Interesting...
Usually, the biggest problem with this is power supplys and board layout. True, you can easily obtain 250/300W AT power supplys (and I *do* prefer a nice switch instead of soft power), and a lot of the newer AT form boards support ATX power, too, so that's not a big deal. Layout is always a factor, and, as an owner of an AT Slot1 board (Soyo 6Y-BB), I can personally tell you that having to saw off part of the hidden drive cage for tall DIMMS is kind of a pain 8^) Cooling is always a factor, but this can always be alleviated with extra fans, cutouts, etc, and isn't always necessary (however, given the power draw on the Athlons, it might be more of an issue - I don't own an Athlon yet (or a follow-on), so I can't tell you).
There's not necessarily a lot of physical reasing that you can't have an AT style board, but manufacurers may consider it a little to much of a niche product, especially since, given the cost of the other parts involved, the case ends up being fairly negligable... unless you want to replace a *nice* case (I've got 6 5" bays, 2 3" bays, and 5 internal mounts on my AT, and I can't give it up - my big ATX case has 5 5", 1 3", and 7 internal mounts - I'm a sucker for expandibility... and I believe in SCSI)[/offtopic]
So, technically feasible, but financially questionable, given: 1) SlotA - A lot of AT cases may not have the juice/cooling and a new supply can cost as much as a case 2) SlotA - Athlons still don't make up the majority of the marketplace (some Intel company, I think) 3) $$$ Creating a line of boards for a small user base would price the boards higher, or eliminate all profit. Either way, not good buisness sense.
I've reported a couple of security issues to M$ in the past, but they decided to ignore them... one got fixed months later after a larger client had problems due to this exposure, and got rather upset. Slow reaction time is a big key... We can fix linux, and people listen when you find things...
Actually, it's nearly the same thing, but not exactly... the problem wasn't with the Athlon - it was the chipset and often power draw. Note that AMD doesn't actually make the chipsets (nor the voltage regs), while intel is actually designing and fabbing the faulty parts here.
Funny, Motorola always sent me all the data books/manuals free (via UPS ordered at a web form). Good stuff... that was a few years ago... don't know when they started that...
>It's known as having a 'granular' security infrastructure, rather than just a monolithic one, where once a logged-in user has 'Root' they 0wn the machine.
>Windows NT is far ahead of Linux in this regard.
Ok, I'll bite - how much different do you consider root from Administrator?
Once you have 'Administrator' (or just get yourself put in the Administrators group (domain or local) - or ever Power Users), you essentially 0wn the machine... unix groups can provide some of the same granularity, and if you use AFS, you can take that even further... The file perms in NTFS are a little more troubling than that in ext2 (for example)... not quite what I'd hope for... of course AFS beast ext2 and normal groups handily here, too...
whether it's the real perp or not, it's pretty funny. I *did* like that 'computer periphenalia' line... yeah - watch out!!! he's got an old ISA hard drive controller and a 9600b modem! All VBA macro virus are due to that... sure...
unless you're just a 5K1P7 K11D13... after all, there's no hacking involved in a metacrawler search for known exploits, and then running them. Easier than freecell...
as for the definition of the word, people who don't know that MS doesn't make Pentiums and Netscape aren't going to listen/understand anyway. Kind of a lost cause.
A nifty little high level mammoth view of all sorts of things. I believe there is a second book, also. It is aimed at school children (and does a good job), but for a computer geek who's never seen how a clutch works, or for a quick + dirty explanation of nuclar reactors, it really quite useful. I haven't seen the second book, but I think it covered more of the newer computer techology than the first. An interesting book to have around the house...
Yup - on a Celeron (300 @ 450) with a 10krpm UW SCSI drive (or a UltraPlex Wide) connected to a Plextor 8/2/20 burner (all on a 2940UW) I can burn at 8x with very low CPU usage, and no danger of coastering even with 8-10 netscrape windows open (animated gifs, java, etc) along with an e-mail client (Eudora 4.2 is the one of choice for my windows world, still), and play an mp3 all at the same time with no concerns... My PMMX @ 250 with a 7200RPM SCSI drive on the same controller never had any problems keeping my 2x burner busy (back in the day). IDE burners are more reliable than ever, but they just aren't the best thing there (until about a year ago, I would have personally attacked anyone who sold or bought them, since the coaster rate was so high above 1x).
Since you want the best thing going, your I/O subsystem is the most important thing. Go with Plextor drives (biased after many years of faithful service and exemplary performance) and a fast drive (almost any 7200/10k drive will do, heck, even the 5400 drives now have some great media xfer rates). Get a good SCSI adapter - Adaptec, Tekram equiv have been good to me, other claim much sucess with Mylex and others. Processors are cheap, and anything over $50 (K6-2 500) is more than enough horses to burn. Memory is cheap now. More is better, but again, the law of diminishing returns comes into play. 128 MB is a nice spot, though I must say that NT is amazing happy with 512MB of registered ECC SDRAM 8^) Of course, a semi-stable platform is good. NT is my burning platform of choice, due to the Adaptec CD software. Nothing seems to match it. Plextor drives also ship a nice little util if you want to dupe discs. Quick, easy.
shoot - I found a few good Zelda mp3s - one original theme, one that sounds like a re-orchestrated midi on a Kurzweil (though it could be a Korg...) and one of a guy singing over the top... an attempt at a heavy metal voice.... something like: "Link, he go to town, go to save the princess Zelda Gannon take her away...." etc... [something about 'shoot your sword with power]
Good stuff. Funny as hell. I'll have to figure out where those came from, and maybe host them...
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Instead of filtering on that, just send off a note to the manager - that should get some attention.
"Bob, it seems you've been visiting freeteensex.com/natalieportman/members a lot these past few days. It's one of my favorite sites too, but damn it man! You don't even have a door on your cube! Think about the harassment suit the girls in the office could bring against us!"
wait.... that's not it...
What really sucks about the lameness filter is that it still triggers that damned 70 second wait... so I can't just fix a few things and get on with things... I have to wait, and wait and wait...
oh well, the joys of reality in an abused public forum.
As another poster noted - this waste of space is most troublesome in embedded systems, but hey - you should have a special compiler for that anyway - problem solved. Besides, we waste more memory with that @$#&@%! animated paperclip...
Ah, but *I* can't read those pages, so they must not exist [/typical American]
In fact, I'm going to continue my lobby for a separate language - American! Heck, we never use 'bobby'm 'lorry' or 'wc'. Not to mention 'football' means something different in American than English or any other language. We'll stick with our 'coney dogs' and other fun local slang.
[/stupidity]
We should at least make English the national language, and make it a crime to conduct schools and buisnesses in other languages [/John Rocker]
Guess I can't win... though I'd rather not. ASCII isn't going away anytime soon, but Unicode is a Good Thing TM.
Actually, a lot of the AS/400 text (internal to drivers/OS) is all EBCDIC - some of it was just converted from ASCII a couple of years ago. Interesting...
>a month of groceries...
;-)
is that in ramen noodles or macaroni & cheese
are you vegetarian? A nice steak will set you back as much as a CD (but it makes a few meals).
Usually, the biggest problem with this is power supplys and board layout. True, you can easily obtain 250/300W AT power supplys (and I *do* prefer a nice switch instead of soft power), and a lot of the newer AT form boards support ATX power, too, so that's not a big deal. Layout is always a factor, and, as an owner of an AT Slot1 board (Soyo 6Y-BB), I can personally tell you that having to saw off part of the hidden drive cage for tall DIMMS is kind of a pain 8^) Cooling is always a factor, but this can always be alleviated with extra fans, cutouts, etc, and isn't always necessary (however, given the power draw on the Athlons, it might be more of an issue - I don't own an Athlon yet (or a follow-on), so I can't tell you).
There's not necessarily a lot of physical reasing that you can't have an AT style board, but manufacurers may consider it a little to much of a niche product, especially since, given the cost of the other parts involved, the case ends up being fairly negligable... unless you want to replace a *nice* case (I've got 6 5" bays, 2 3" bays, and 5 internal mounts on my AT, and I can't give it up - my big ATX case has 5 5", 1 3", and 7 internal mounts - I'm a sucker for expandibility... and I believe in SCSI)[/offtopic]
So, technically feasible, but financially questionable, given:
1) SlotA - A lot of AT cases may not have the juice/cooling and a new supply can cost as much as a case
2) SlotA - Athlons still don't make up the majority of the marketplace (some Intel company, I think)
3) $$$ Creating a line of boards for a small user base would price the boards higher, or eliminate all profit. Either way, not good buisness sense.
Sorry, but that's just my e^(-j*Pi) cents...
I've reported a couple of security issues to M$ in the past, but they decided to ignore them... one got fixed months later after a larger client had problems due to this exposure, and got rather upset. Slow reaction time is a big key... We can fix linux, and people listen when you find things...
rrrrrrgh... you try to be helpful, and you end up off-topic...
Guy asks about conversion between ASCII and EBCDIC (chart/table), so I put one up... off-topic my arse!!!
[/bitch-and-moan]
>Microsoft is LOOSING
/. 8^)
Please use the correct words. It makes you sound rather ignorant when you don't.
'Losing', not 'Loosing' is correct. This is a common mistake, but it detracts from your message.
I'm willing to take some karma hits if I can help clean up
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Yeah, but nobody with any sense bought that - they waited for the other ones...
[/flamebait]
Actually, it's nearly the same thing, but not exactly... the problem wasn't with the Athlon - it was the chipset and often power draw. Note that AMD doesn't actually make the chipsets (nor the voltage regs), while intel is actually designing and fabbing the faulty parts here.
Funny, Motorola always sent me all the data books/manuals free (via UPS ordered at a web form). Good stuff... that was a few years ago... don't know when they started that...
>It's known as having a 'granular' security infrastructure, rather than just a monolithic one, where once a logged-in user has 'Root' they 0wn the machine.
>Windows NT is far ahead of Linux in this regard.
Ok, I'll bite - how much different do you consider root from Administrator?
Once you have 'Administrator' (or just get yourself put in the Administrators group (domain or local) - or ever Power Users), you essentially 0wn the machine... unix groups can provide some of the same granularity, and if you use AFS, you can take that even further... The file perms in NTFS are a little more troubling than that in ext2 (for example)... not quite what I'd hope for... of course AFS beast ext2 and normal groups handily here, too...
Just wondering 8^)
aahhhhhhg.... "show's"... bad english day (like a bad hair day, but below the surface)... could just be a finger disobediance problem...
>whats a "skipl kiddie"?
actually, skipt kiddie... show's just how well I can convert into 1337 5P33k... oops.
HA - ha! (sucker)
whether it's the real perp or not, it's pretty funny. I *did* like that 'computer periphenalia' line... yeah - watch out!!! he's got an old ISA hard drive controller and a 9600b modem! All VBA macro virus are due to that... sure...
unless you're just a 5K1P7 K11D13... after all, there's no hacking involved in a metacrawler search for known exploits, and then running them. Easier than freecell...
as for the definition of the word, people who don't know that MS doesn't make Pentiums and Netscape aren't going to listen/understand anyway. Kind of a lost cause.
(of the same title)
A nifty little high level mammoth view of all sorts of things. I believe there is a second book, also. It is aimed at school children (and does a good job), but for a computer geek who's never seen how a clutch works, or for a quick + dirty explanation of nuclar reactors, it really quite useful. I haven't seen the second book, but I think it covered more of the newer computer techology than the first. An interesting book to have around the house...
The cost might head up into the billions... it doesn't take much these days - especially given the scope of everything.
Creates more aggravation than the FDIV bug, too.
Yup - on a Celeron (300 @ 450) with a 10krpm UW SCSI drive (or a UltraPlex Wide) connected to a Plextor 8/2/20 burner (all on a 2940UW) I can burn at 8x with very low CPU usage, and no danger of coastering even with 8-10 netscrape windows open (animated gifs, java, etc) along with an e-mail client (Eudora 4.2 is the one of choice for my windows world, still), and play an mp3 all at the same time with no concerns... My PMMX @ 250 with a 7200RPM SCSI drive on the same controller never had any problems keeping my 2x burner busy (back in the day). IDE burners are more reliable than ever, but they just aren't the best thing there (until about a year ago, I would have personally attacked anyone who sold or bought them, since the coaster rate was so high above 1x).
Since you want the best thing going, your I/O subsystem is the most important thing. Go with Plextor drives (biased after many years of faithful service and exemplary performance) and a fast drive (almost any 7200/10k drive will do, heck, even the 5400 drives now have some great media xfer rates). Get a good SCSI adapter - Adaptec, Tekram equiv have been good to me, other claim much sucess with Mylex and others. Processors are cheap, and anything over $50 (K6-2 500) is more than enough horses to burn. Memory is cheap now. More is better, but again, the law of diminishing returns comes into play. 128 MB is a nice spot, though I must say that NT is amazing happy with 512MB of registered ECC SDRAM 8^) Of course, a semi-stable platform is good. NT is my burning platform of choice, due to the Adaptec CD software. Nothing seems to match it. Plextor drives also ship a nice little util if you want to dupe discs. Quick, easy.
Mmmm... I've been a little verbose. 'Nuff said.
shoot - I found a few good Zelda mp3s - one original theme, one that sounds like a re-orchestrated midi on a Kurzweil (though it could be a Korg...) and one of a guy singing over the top... an attempt at a heavy metal voice .... something like:
"Link, he go to town, go to save the princess Zelda
Gannon take her away...." etc...
[something about 'shoot your sword with power]
Good stuff. Funny as hell. I'll have to figure out where those came from, and maybe host them...
Pretty nifty (not real exciting) - though it *is* 5MB... glad I'ev got a cable modem. 75+K/s sustained - whoo-hoo! Not /.'d yet.
Now that's scary... I nearly fell out of my chair I was laughing so hard...
no... it's good for a five minute laugh... time for more Guinness [mmmmmm]