I'm from Ponca, and tried several different areas to pick up the wifi. I got decent (3 bars) in most of the places, but at one house on the same corner as an AP I couldn't even pick up signal that one was there. When I did get a decent signal, I had pretty terrible bandwidth.
Frankly, as odd as it sounds, I'm honored and pleased to have been able to enjoy this site for the last 10 years (including the original 'Chips & Dips' with the WM themes and your kooky animations). This place is the only one that I have done my best to check every day at least once in the morning, just to see what was new and what others thought about it. Hell, I've even done three years in prison (long story), and met one other person there that read here.
You've come a long way, and still have a ways to go.
He shouldn't even be given the opportunity to resign, just be fired. In the real world, if you screw up like that intentionally, its not "would you please resign", it is "get the hell out of my office, you're fired" and followed by an escort so you don't go ballistic.
But, this is a government office, and they've already started to make it look like "hey, if I lie and get caught, its OK, as long as I say I'm sorry".
considering a protein skimmer on a saltwater tank is doing a similar job that the beach does for the ocean, shouldnt I just be able to dump the nasty fish poo foam from mine into some mixed saltwater and get a similar smell? Maybe add some aragonite sand to it and mix it up?
Its not movies, but has anyone watched any of the CSI shows and noticed that they have a *different* interface on their lab computers every episode? Their IT and IS guys must be working some serious overtime upgrading constantly.
I remember the BBS days.. spending days trying to get ahold of the sysop to get a couple extra d/l credits to get that 1mb game that *just* came out on his BBS, uploading whatever junk I could find to get more, then finally getting enough credits and not having enough connection time to actually download that 1mb file and getting disconnected, then the next day trying to get ahold of the sysop again to see if I could get unlimited time for the day to d/l that 1mb file, then not being able to continue the d/l, so having to start over, then 'oh, i need the phone, can i use the phone for just 2 minutes...' after getting almost all of that 1mb game. DAMN YOU DUKE NUKEM and Monster Bash!:)
I had the same problem, even burned 4 copies of disc1 from a couple different mirrors, and I saw a suggestion from a while back about how to fix it. The fix involved adding a line to/boot/loader.conf, which is kinda hard to do on a cd boot. So, I tried the next step, setting the variable at boot time, and it worked.
At the bootloader prompt (Hit enter to continue or any other key for prompt), type:
set hw.ata.atapi_dma=1 boot
and it should install fine. Also, once installed and booted to it, before you try to read from a cd, add the line without 'set' to the/boot/loader.conf and all will be well. This is just a workaround, I think its something to do w/ the ata driver and some cdroms, but I could be wrong. All I know is it works, and others have had success w/ that fix.
tried that already.. looked through the lists and found older messages about problems with having the partition above the 1024 cylinder, so after trying several different things, I think thats what it boils down to. Thanks for the help though.
I had 2 MS Flight Sim 2000 CD's blow up in 2 different drives. The first one was put off as a fluke, and CD and drive were replaced. When the second cd blew up and a 4" long fragment shot out and stuck into the side of a 2 year old girl walking around the computer, the fluke escalated to a real problem.
I contacted the manufacterer of the 50x drive and Microsoft to find answers, and someone to pay the medical bill, but since I'm not a lawyer, and none of the attorneys around me wanted to touch the case with a 50' pole, no answer was ever found other than "you must have put the CD in wrong" from both the drive maker and Microsoft. As if there is a way to put a CD in the drive incorrectly, and still have it read. The bill for the second explosion totaled almost $10k because of some small internal injuries needing patched to the child's intestines.
I used to work for a company that outsourced tech support for gateway in 1997, and when that company decided to put its 'helpdesk' out of commission, I ran a linux box with ircd on it so the techs could use that as a community helpdesk. Gateway regularly did portscans on all its systems on its internal network, and when i came across the one with ircd, it contacted the company I worked for, had that box, and the one other box that ran Linux shut down, I was fired, as well as one other person, because we were not using a Microsoft licensed product for the project. It sounds really strange, but what happened, is Gateway contacted the company, said there was a "breach of contract," and told them to either fire us, or they were losing their account. So, since it was much easier to let two people go than 3/4 of the floor, they fired us, they told us why, and put "improper use of internet mail and news" as the official reason on our termination papers, to avoid any possibility of backlash in the future. How would that look to go to have to answer to the Better Busines Bureau, or wherever, with "we fired them because they were using something other than a Microsoft product." The company has sparc with solaris, but it is owned by Gateway, and is used for the telecom monitoring.
The disconcert cluster that we used for the dictionary attack contained more than two-hundred workstations, mostly from CAEN (that is the computer aided engineering network at UMich). The peak performance is comparable to 72 1200 MHz Pentium III machines:-)...
my sentiments exactly. its 4:15 here and that story got posted at 4:08. Not only a little late, but a *lot* late. Next on/. "US Government tests first Atomic Bomb - Trinity tests begin"
I just d/l and installed BeOS just before the last post about them, and got tips from comments about betips.net having info on making an installable CD and such. My video card (geforceII) wasnt supported by default either, and my supported sound card had a somewhat unsupported chipset, but I was able to get the nvidia unified driver and a good sound driver from bebits.com. BeOS was/is a damn good and fast OS though.
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I'm from Ponca, and tried several different areas to pick up the wifi. I got decent (3 bars) in most of the places, but at one house on the same corner as an AP I couldn't even pick up signal that one was there. When I did get a decent signal, I had pretty terrible bandwidth.
Frankly, as odd as it sounds, I'm honored and pleased to have been able to enjoy this site for the last 10 years (including the original 'Chips & Dips' with the WM themes and your kooky animations). This place is the only one that I have done my best to check every day at least once in the morning, just to see what was new and what others thought about it. Hell, I've even done three years in prison (long story), and met one other person there that read here.
You've come a long way, and still have a ways to go.
Cheers
He shouldn't even be given the opportunity to resign, just be fired. In the real world, if you screw up like that intentionally, its not "would you please resign", it is "get the hell out of my office, you're fired" and followed by an escort so you don't go ballistic.
But, this is a government office, and they've already started to make it look like "hey, if I lie and get caught, its OK, as long as I say I'm sorry".
btw, I wonder if that UID 398 makes me a vet. :P
sorry, had to say it.
use the wayback machine. :)
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://slashdot.org
thats about all I can respond with.
yeah right.
considering a protein skimmer on a saltwater tank is doing a similar job that the beach does for the ocean, shouldnt I just be able to dump the nasty fish poo foam from mine into some mixed saltwater and get a similar smell? Maybe add some aragonite sand to it and mix it up?
so if you buy the vista upgrade, basically you're buying a cd full of diffs?
the hardware never dies, it just gets taken or runs away to a farm in the country like our dogs and cats when we were kids.
Its not movies, but has anyone watched any of the CSI shows and noticed that they have a *different* interface on their lab computers every episode? Their IT and IS guys must be working some serious overtime upgrading constantly.
I remember the BBS days.. spending days trying to get ahold of the sysop to get a couple extra d/l credits to get that 1mb game that *just* came out on his BBS, uploading whatever junk I could find to get more, then finally getting enough credits and not having enough connection time to actually download that 1mb file and getting disconnected, then the next day trying to get ahold of the sysop again to see if I could get unlimited time for the day to d/l that 1mb file, then not being able to continue the d/l, so having to start over, then 'oh, i need the phone, can i use the phone for just 2 minutes...' after getting almost all of that 1mb game. DAMN YOU DUKE NUKEM and Monster Bash! :)
hey, this machine ate my change!
I have a lot of brick streets around my house, this bike would be hell on the back, but only for a split second.
I've been reading slashdot pretty much since it came about, seen a lot of good stories, lots of bad.
I've also seen some good comments, but lots of bad.
I've gotten to where I very rarely even read the comments, because most of them are *way* off topic, or are just full of crud.
I doubt this helps any with the problems, but I have no real suggestions to a solution either, just putting in my 1.5 cents + tax.
can we back up and make it hit L.A.? Please? I'll donate my $5 to the cause.
I had the same problem, even burned 4 copies of disc1 from a couple different mirrors, and I saw a suggestion from a while back about how to fix it. The fix involved adding a line to /boot/loader.conf, which is kinda hard to do on a cd boot. So, I tried the next step, setting the variable at boot time, and it worked.
/boot/loader.conf and all will be well. This is just a workaround, I think its something to do w/ the ata driver and some cdroms, but I could be wrong. All I know is it works, and others have had success w/ that fix.
At the bootloader prompt (Hit enter to continue or any other key for prompt), type:
set hw.ata.atapi_dma=1
boot
and it should install fine. Also, once installed and booted to it, before you try to read from a cd, add the line without 'set' to the
btw, do you have a AOpen 52x also?
tried that already.. looked through the lists and found older messages about problems with having the partition above the 1024 cylinder, so after trying several different things, I think thats what it boils down to. Thanks for the help though.
Just installed OpenBSD3.1, reboot, got "Bad Magic" and a halt.. hmm.
the 4 cd set from walnut creek of slackware '96 had a duckbilled platypus on it. If i had a scanner I'd scan the cover so you could see.
I had 2 MS Flight Sim 2000 CD's blow up in 2 different drives.
The first one was put off as a fluke, and CD and drive were replaced. When the second cd blew up and a 4" long fragment shot out and stuck into the side of a 2 year old girl walking around the computer, the fluke escalated to a real problem.
I contacted the manufacterer of the 50x drive and Microsoft to find answers, and someone to pay the medical bill, but since I'm not a lawyer, and none of the attorneys around me wanted to touch the case with a 50' pole, no answer was ever found other than "you must have put the CD in wrong" from both the drive maker and Microsoft. As if there is a way to put a CD in the drive incorrectly, and still have it read. The bill for the second explosion totaled almost $10k because of some small internal injuries needing patched to the child's intestines.
I used to work for a company that outsourced tech support for gateway in 1997, and when that company decided to put its 'helpdesk' out of commission, I ran a linux box with ircd on it so the techs could use that as a community helpdesk. Gateway regularly did portscans on all its systems on its internal network, and when i came across the one with ircd, it contacted the company I worked for, had that box, and the one other box that ran Linux shut down, I was fired, as well as one other person, because we were not using a Microsoft licensed product for the project. It sounds really strange, but what happened, is Gateway contacted the company, said there was a "breach of contract," and told them to either fire us, or they were losing their account. So, since it was much easier to let two people go than 3/4 of the floor, they fired us, they told us why, and put "improper use of internet mail and news" as the official reason on our termination papers, to avoid any possibility of backlash in the future. How would that look to go to have to answer to the Better Busines Bureau, or wherever, with "we fired them because they were using something other than a Microsoft product." The company has sparc with solaris, but it is owned by Gateway, and is used for the telecom monitoring.
i'm almost as low in #'s.. considering the number that there are.
# 398
The disconcert cluster that we used for the dictionary attack contained more than two-hundred workstations, mostly from CAEN (that is the computer aided engineering network at UMich). The peak performance is comparable to 72 1200 MHz Pentium III machines :-) ...
thats what it said.
my sentiments exactly. its 4:15 here and that story got posted at 4:08. Not only a little late, but a *lot* late. Next on /. "US Government tests first Atomic Bomb - Trinity tests begin"
I just d/l and installed BeOS just before the last post about them, and got tips from comments about betips.net having info on making an installable CD and such. My video card (geforceII) wasnt supported by default either, and my supported sound card had a somewhat unsupported chipset, but I was able to get the nvidia unified driver and a good sound driver from bebits.com. BeOS was/is a damn good and fast OS though.