I tell my folks to click "no, cancel, close, shutdown" in that order of severity...
In all actually I keep my folks using apple hardware/software which keeps them out of most of the trouble your average parent can get into in the first place...
He's probably a cox or shaw customer. When I was using cable internet to host I had to pay 200 dollars a month for 2mbit down and 512kbit up. I've since gone to a 4mbit sync colo facility for $90/month and 1mb/128k DSL for $30 a month in my home.
I wonder if they will deliver on the promise of 1 mb/s upstream. Getting a megabit down is common place these days, but that kind of upload bandwidth would be nice to have for 30 bucks a month...
Anybody who knows enough about panther to enable the root account and login to a shell with that user, will know better than to enter that command line.
I don't think you need to be concerned with sounding pedantic at all. I would say that my post would have treaded closer to the bounds of that adjective. That said, I suppose it won't make you feel much better to know that I do post stories quite often. Rather, I attempt to - I don't know if it is the subject matter I suggest, or my writing style which foils my attempts. In any case, the slashdot editors don't ever seem to find my material worthy of selection. Not that this really bothers me, but please don't assume that I _never_ try to share my knowledge with the community. The very reason I'm such an avid poster at the [H] is that I find I'm actually able to help people there, and learn some new tricks myself...
I don't mean to sound negative, but why does slashdot always come to news like this 3 or 4 months late? I'm an avid poster over at hardforums.com and this is really old news. This bios flash has been common knowledge to [H]ardcore enthusiasts since the prices dropped on 5900 non-ultras around the 5700ultra release a few months ago...
I have a couple of friends and family that work for NASA down here in Houston. All of them say that shuttle launches should be starting back up by September 2004, barring any new organizational shift in purpose or philosophy. I think they wanna get back in the air before the election...
America is not simply a democracy my friend. We are, to be quite specific about it, an integrative-moderate-majoritarian-democracy. I could write (and unfortunatly have written) a 30 page essay about what this means. But the long and the short of it goes something like this: It is a democracy with built-in political incentives for inter-issue party appeal. The government runs on a constant level of spin which encourages the political-elites to gravitate to a moderate and generally speaking well-justified central ideal. All that jibber jabber basically means that, we make it clear to our political leaders that more than anything we care about stability and prosperity - and they learn that if they wanna stay around they shouldn't rock the boat.
Wow, talk about a surprise. When I cued up slashdot to read some news, I was totally expecting to hear about precision strike teams taking Iraq's republican guard apart. How 'totally the opposite' is this?
John, not to bash. But I'm class of 2004 and there is no SSN on my Student ID which I've had since 2000. Also, none of my professers deal with full SSNs anymore. The classes that do utilize my SSN use the partial, such as my last 4 digits. The only place I still have to use my full SSN is in bonfire (part of Texas A&M's Student Information Managment system). Since I only login to bonfire using SSH I don't worry too much about it, maybe I should though...
Not to dispute anything you said, but... My best uptime with OS X and a G4 CPU has been 263 days 16 hours 21 minutes and that was brought to an end by my toe tapping the power-cycle button on the front of the case... (I don't just run my G4 looking for uptime, I use it as an httpd/imap/ipfw in my apartment, and when that doesn't creat full load - it devotes spare cycles to seti@home)
I have a question for someone using OSXS - is apple as reboot-happy with thier 'server' updates as they are for the OS X client? Sometimes (as in the case of major updates) a reboot is necessary and proper. But, when I was using OS X 10.0.X (I'm currently experimenting with Gentoo PPC Linux) I was annoyed that each week brought a new reboot-nonoptional update. I don't mind apple keeping us up-to-date and secure, I think it's great. I'm pretty certain, however, that some of those reboots are of the 'good habit' variety, rather than being absolutly necessary. I didn't mean to rant, I really did mean to ask -- how prevalent are the reboots with OSXS?
If you all want to understand hyperspace better you shoud pick up a copy of Michio Kaku's 'Hyperspace'. It covers most of the subject matter of flatland, and goes into more depth on the possibilities of higher dimensional space and unified field theory. It's a really interesting read and speaks on a level that most people can understand. I got alot out of it when I first read the book 6 years ago (I was 14 years old). I didn't get all the mathematics then, but the basic concepts were very well illustrated, and it got me started thinking even then.
He (everyone with an interest) should read Michio Kaku's 'hyperspace' it covers most of the subject matter of flatland, and goes into more depth on the possibilities of higher dimensional space, and unified field theory.
I love that iTunes comes with so much cool music for people to play around with. I was actually really surprised to see that song by Filter, Green Light. Way to go apple *in the voice of the guy in 'hunt for red october saying 'way to go dallas'*
Asume for a moment that Microsoft were split into 2 companies. One with applications and one with Operating Systems. Assume then that the newly formed OS division were to cut off either AMD OR Intel. At that juncture, (AMD let's say) could purchase apple outright, compile it for x86 and market it to any company wishing to build AMD based systems. A far reach though this setup is, it's something that could happen. All you have to do is take the hardware interest in PPC away from apple, and find a way to keep MS from with-holding it's killer applications. Then you have a viable setup to produce OSX on x86. It's NOT impossible, only improbable. I do agree with you on one thing though, I don't understand why this guy thinks it's already being planned or slated for production...
This should finally push a lot of hold-outs over the upgrade edge. I don't care what anybody says, I think adobe did this to make sure everyone knew they weren't apple's bitch...
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I tell my folks to click "no, cancel, close, shutdown" in that order of severity... In all actually I keep my folks using apple hardware/software which keeps them out of most of the trouble your average parent can get into in the first place...
Ah, now for the true troll: In sweden you are paying for your high speed internet partially through your 50% tax rate no doubt...
He's probably a cox or shaw customer. When I was using cable internet to host I had to pay 200 dollars a month for 2mbit down and 512kbit up. I've since gone to a 4mbit sync colo facility for $90/month and 1mb/128k DSL for $30 a month in my home.
I wonder if they will deliver on the promise of 1 mb/s upstream. Getting a megabit down is common place these days, but that kind of upload bandwidth would be nice to have for 30 bucks a month...
Anybody who knows enough about panther to enable the root account and login to a shell with that user, will know better than to enter that command line.
OMG - I knew it. That's what I _never_ win at those games...
Is that for serious? I don't know what it has to do with the RIAA - but it's pretty interesting...
I don't think you need to be concerned with sounding pedantic at all. I would say that my post would have treaded closer to the bounds of that adjective. That said, I suppose it won't make you feel much better to know that I do post stories quite often. Rather, I attempt to - I don't know if it is the subject matter I suggest, or my writing style which foils my attempts. In any case, the slashdot editors don't ever seem to find my material worthy of selection. Not that this really bothers me, but please don't assume that I _never_ try to share my knowledge with the community. The very reason I'm such an avid poster at the [H] is that I find I'm actually able to help people there, and learn some new tricks myself...
I don't mean to sound negative, but why does slashdot always come to news like this 3 or 4 months late? I'm an avid poster over at hardforums.com and this is really old news. This bios flash has been common knowledge to [H]ardcore enthusiasts since the prices dropped on 5900 non-ultras around the 5700ultra release a few months ago...
I have a couple of friends and family that work for NASA down here in Houston. All of them say that shuttle launches should be starting back up by September 2004, barring any new organizational shift in purpose or philosophy. I think they wanna get back in the air before the election...
Is this the same as the ABIword ebuild available in my gentoo installation?
I thought the universal hacker symbol was the little spy vs. spy guys from mad magazine, as seen here.
America is not simply a democracy my friend. We are, to be quite specific about it, an integrative-moderate-majoritarian-democracy. I could write (and unfortunatly have written) a 30 page essay about what this means. But the long and the short of it goes something like this: It is a democracy with built-in political incentives for inter-issue party appeal. The government runs on a constant level of spin which encourages the political-elites to gravitate to a moderate and generally speaking well-justified central ideal. All that jibber jabber basically means that, we make it clear to our political leaders that more than anything we care about stability and prosperity - and they learn that if they wanna stay around they shouldn't rock the boat.
If you haven't seen the Penny-Arcade comic about America's Army, then you NEED TO...
Someone should mod this chump up, so everyone can take a moment to share with him what a fool he is...
Wow, talk about a surprise. When I cued up slashdot to read some news, I was totally expecting to hear about precision strike teams taking Iraq's republican guard apart. How 'totally the opposite' is this?
John, not to bash. But I'm class of 2004 and there is no SSN on my Student ID which I've had since 2000. Also, none of my professers deal with full SSNs anymore. The classes that do utilize my SSN use the partial, such as my last 4 digits. The only place I still have to use my full SSN is in bonfire (part of Texas A&M's Student Information Managment system). Since I only login to bonfire using SSH I don't worry too much about it, maybe I should though...
Not to be ignorant or anything, but as a Texas A&M Aggie it's my duty to say -- Whoop!
Not to dispute anything you said, but... My best uptime with OS X and a G4 CPU has been 263 days 16 hours 21 minutes and that was brought to an end by my toe tapping the power-cycle button on the front of the case... (I don't just run my G4 looking for uptime, I use it as an httpd/imap/ipfw in my apartment, and when that doesn't creat full load - it devotes spare cycles to seti@home)
I have a question for someone using OSXS - is apple as reboot-happy with thier 'server' updates as they are for the OS X client? Sometimes (as in the case of major updates) a reboot is necessary and proper. But, when I was using OS X 10.0.X (I'm currently experimenting with Gentoo PPC Linux) I was annoyed that each week brought a new reboot-nonoptional update. I don't mind apple keeping us up-to-date and secure, I think it's great. I'm pretty certain, however, that some of those reboots are of the 'good habit' variety, rather than being absolutly necessary. I didn't mean to rant, I really did mean to ask -- how prevalent are the reboots with OSXS?
If you all want to understand hyperspace better you shoud pick up a copy of Michio Kaku's 'Hyperspace'. It covers most of the subject matter of flatland, and goes into more depth on the possibilities of higher dimensional space and unified field theory. It's a really interesting read and speaks on a level that most people can understand. I got alot out of it when I first read the book 6 years ago (I was 14 years old). I didn't get all the mathematics then, but the basic concepts were very well illustrated, and it got me started thinking even then.
He (everyone with an interest) should read Michio Kaku's 'hyperspace' it covers most of the subject matter of flatland, and goes into more depth on the possibilities of higher dimensional space, and unified field theory.
I love that iTunes comes with so much cool music for people to play around with. I was actually really surprised to see that song by Filter, Green Light. Way to go apple *in the voice of the guy in 'hunt for red october saying 'way to go dallas'*
Asume for a moment that Microsoft were split into 2 companies. One with applications and one with Operating Systems. Assume then that the newly formed OS division were to cut off either AMD OR Intel. At that juncture, (AMD let's say) could purchase apple outright, compile it for x86 and market it to any company wishing to build AMD based systems. A far reach though this setup is, it's something that could happen. All you have to do is take the hardware interest in PPC away from apple, and find a way to keep MS from with-holding it's killer applications. Then you have a viable setup to produce OSX on x86. It's NOT impossible, only improbable. I do agree with you on one thing though, I don't understand why this guy thinks it's already being planned or slated for production...
This should finally push a lot of hold-outs over the upgrade edge. I don't care what anybody says, I think adobe did this to make sure everyone knew they weren't apple's bitch...