This was about five or six years ago, when the school was first installing the system in the first dorm. And the guy in question had an off campus apartment and was trying to rig something up between his on-campus room and his off-campus apartment. He misconfigured something in a truly spectacular fashion and caused the whole system to turn on its head.
Ever since. The DoH has reacted to the idea of a router anywhere near their previous Ethernet ports with great vengeance and furious anger.
As a former resident of the UF dorms, I can answer this question. The last time someone hooked a router into a dorm room connection, they blew out the entire building's network connection for several days.
The Division of Housing does NOT look kindly upon someone who so much as mentions the word 'router' in their hearing.
I cna't help but wonder just how bad the heat problems could eventually get on a system designed like this. I mean, the Northbridge on a typical PC these days can burn your hand...
Looks like we've gotten a heads up on whose equipment not to buy anymore.
Thanks a lot.
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The paperless office won't come until the average PHB thinks that computers are for something other than just playing Quake on while everyone else thinks they're just profoundly busy.
Are highly doubtful in general, much of the time. I'd really hate to say it, but a lot of it is corporate-funded pandering and dreaming out to try and force the market in a certain direction.
I think most people lost their faith in the powers of technological prediction when whole the flying cars by 1990 fell through.
Looks like SCO is trying to actually acquire some sort of legal claim on all of the things that they're trying to grab before they enter court.
Perhaps they're hoping they can gain a legal claim in truth over the things they're only saying they control, so that IBM doesn't devour them and add its technolgical distinctivenes to its own.
You can't really predict long term climate from looking at events in the short term. For instance, if you look at the current temperature compared to the temperature of the world from around the time we started to get the idea that this whole two-legged walking thing was keen, you'd note that the world has been positivly CHILLY as of late.
You can sit there and complain about global warming and greenhouse gasses and the like all you want.
Keep in mind, the current, chilly weather on Earth is NOT indicative of the overall climate trends of the planet in the past. It's quite possible that at some point in the future things will start to revert to the much more hot & humid patterns in the days of old.
This is a thorny issue, and you can't poke your finger at any one 'cause' and give it the blame. It could be industry. It could be nature. It could be that people are misinterpreting the data entirely.
Or it could just be unseasonably warm this time of the millineum.
Or perhaps we'll get a fly-by from Unicron tomorrow and the point will be moot.
You know. I can't help but wonder where all that stock actually WENT to when folks started to dump it. You can't exactly sell the stock to thin air, somebody's gotta buy it.
Right?
I wonder who bought the stock that's been selling off.
A law that's on the books, but never applied isn't a real law, it's just words on a page. You have to actually get the words out, hold them up to the person standing against them, and impliment them.
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Pardon me, Sir.
But what in the name of Hawking are you babbling about?
Naturally the motto of older profs, especially in the humanities, is going to be:
Change? We fear change...
Heaven forbid they actually have to evolve and innovate. Most of them have been using the same lectures for the past decade. I've dealt with a few who were borderline Luddites, insisting on whipping out Vis'a'Vis markers and an overhead projector in a class of hundreds.
And let's not forget that the books could have been carbon dated.
Didn't we hear about this yesterday? This isn't exactly new, news. How about waiting for a new bit on it until we actually have some new information. Like IBM or some other simliarly large corporation bending SCO's back the wrong way until it crumples like tin foil?
This is the best news we've heard for NASA in a couple of decades. There's nothing like a little compeition with one of the 'evil empires' of the world to get our Congressmen in a spending mood.
We went to the Moon so that the USSR couldn't get there first, ne?
It tends to come as a.scr,.exe or.pif file. And it has all the typical hallmarks of other massmailers.
I spent several hours today cleaning computers in my office, all tyhe while getting sends from over half the free world, it seemed, with more copies of the blody thing on them.
The easiest way back in the days of Q2 was that the bot was a little bit too good for it's own good. It would spin a character model around to fire faster than any human could ever manage. the side effect of this was, it would move faster than the human eye could keep up as well.. leading to the very distinctive illusion that the bot-user was firing weapons out of his.. ah..exhaust port.
Now this is interesting, because no life on Earth uses left-handed Animo Acids. They all use Right-handed ones. Both left and right occur 50/50 in nature, so any ratio of left handed Amino Acids that outweighs right is...
Well...
Something would have had to *make* the left handed acids...
From what I remember, Square actually wound up buying out Enix. The stock buyout ratio was cast in Square's favor when the two companies combined, giving Enix owners somewhat less in return than what Square owners got.
Well, if there's anything that history has taught us it's that the military loves expensive toys that look sexy. And you can't get much sexier or more expensive than your very own Death Ray.
I wonder how much money a company (or the individual with primary access to the bank accounts for said company) can get in endoresements and investments, just by generating some sort of vaporware, looking like they're doing something and then making it vanish in a puff of logic?
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This was about five or six years ago, when the school was first installing the system in the first dorm. And the guy in question had an off campus apartment and was trying to rig something up between his on-campus room and his off-campus apartment. He misconfigured something in a truly spectacular fashion and caused the whole system to turn on its head.
Ever since. The DoH has reacted to the idea of a router anywhere near their previous Ethernet ports with great vengeance and furious anger.
As a former resident of the UF dorms, I can answer this question. The last time someone hooked a router into a dorm room connection, they blew out the entire building's network connection for several days.
The Division of Housing does NOT look kindly upon someone who so much as mentions the word 'router' in their hearing.
I cna't help but wonder just how bad the heat problems could eventually get on a system designed like this. I mean, the Northbridge on a typical PC these days can burn your hand...
o/~ It's beginning to smell a lot like vapor..
Looks like we've gotten a heads up on whose equipment not to buy anymore.
Thanks a lot.
The paperless office won't come until the average PHB thinks that computers are for something other than just playing Quake on while everyone else thinks they're just profoundly busy.
Computers?
Transmitting and archiving information?
Blasphemy!
Are highly doubtful in general, much of the time. I'd really hate to say it, but a lot of it is corporate-funded pandering and dreaming out to try and force the market in a certain direction.
I think most people lost their faith in the powers of technological prediction when whole the flying cars by 1990 fell through.
...is said to be nine tenths of the law.
Looks like SCO is trying to actually acquire some sort of legal claim on all of the things that they're trying to grab before they enter court.
Perhaps they're hoping they can gain a legal claim in truth over the things they're only saying they control, so that IBM doesn't devour them and add its technolgical distinctivenes to its own.
Thank yew.
You can't really predict long term climate from looking at events in the short term. For instance, if you look at the current temperature compared to the temperature of the world from around the time we started to get the idea that this whole two-legged walking thing was keen, you'd note that the world has been positivly CHILLY as of late.
You can sit there and complain about global warming and greenhouse gasses and the like all you want.
Keep in mind, the current, chilly weather on Earth is NOT indicative of the overall climate trends of the planet in the past. It's quite possible that at some point in the future things will start to revert to the much more hot & humid patterns in the days of old.
This is a thorny issue, and you can't poke your finger at any one 'cause' and give it the blame. It could be industry. It could be nature. It could be that people are misinterpreting the data entirely.
Or it could just be unseasonably warm this time of the millineum.
Or perhaps we'll get a fly-by from Unicron tomorrow and the point will be moot.
Take it with a grain of salt.
Don't give into alarmist reactions.
Wait.
And watch.
You know. I can't help but wonder where all that stock actually WENT to when folks started to dump it. You can't exactly sell the stock to thin air, somebody's gotta buy it.
Right?
I wonder who bought the stock that's been selling off.
The GPL has to be tested.
It's a simple fact.
A law that's on the books, but never applied isn't a real law, it's just words on a page. You have to actually get the words out, hold them up to the person standing against them, and impliment them.
Pardon me, Sir.
But what in the name of Hawking are you babbling about?
Naturally the motto of older profs, especially in the humanities, is going to be:
Change? We fear change...
Heaven forbid they actually have to evolve and innovate. Most of them have been using the same lectures for the past decade. I've dealt with a few who were borderline Luddites, insisting on whipping out Vis'a'Vis markers and an overhead projector in a class of hundreds.
And let's not forget that the books could have been carbon dated.
Didn't we hear about this yesterday? This isn't exactly new, news. How about waiting for a new bit on it until we actually have some new information. Like IBM or some other simliarly large corporation bending SCO's back the wrong way until it crumples like tin foil?
Seriously.
We know that SCO is being a naughty boy.
We don't need to be reminded about it every day.
We all know how much politicians love pork barrel spending. Anti-Spam legislation must sound like a nail in their own coffins.
Money is but a measurement of faith in one's nation. If we're going to have a space program, I would much prefer that it be a well funded one.
This is the best news we've heard for NASA in a couple of decades. There's nothing like a little compeition with one of the 'evil empires' of the world to get our Congressmen in a spending mood.
We went to the Moon so that the USSR couldn't get there first, ne?
It tends to come as a .scr, .exe or .pif file. And it has all the typical hallmarks of other massmailers.
I spent several hours today cleaning computers in my office, all tyhe while getting sends from over half the free world, it seemed, with more copies of the blody thing on them.
The easiest way back in the days of Q2 was that the bot was a little bit too good for it's own good. It would spin a character model around to fire faster than any human could ever manage. the side effect of this was, it would move faster than the human eye could keep up as well.. leading to the very distinctive illusion that the bot-user was firing weapons out of his.. ah..exhaust port.
Lose a bit? I don't know about that. Trigun is one of the better dubs out there, all things considered.
Now this is interesting, because no life on Earth uses left-handed Animo Acids. They all use Right-handed ones. Both left and right occur 50/50 in nature, so any ratio of left handed Amino Acids that outweighs right is...
Well...
Something would have had to *make* the left handed acids...
From what I remember, Square actually wound up buying out Enix. The stock buyout ratio was cast in Square's favor when the two companies combined, giving Enix owners somewhat less in return than what Square owners got.
Well, if there's anything that history has taught us it's that the military loves expensive toys that look sexy. And you can't get much sexier or more expensive than your very own Death Ray.
I wonder how much money a company (or the individual with primary access to the bank accounts for said company) can get in endoresements and investments, just by generating some sort of vaporware, looking like they're doing something and then making it vanish in a puff of logic?