If you didn't pay for it, it's probably 'stolen' - ie. copyrighted.
There were raids on pr0n BBSs back in the 80's for various reasons (unauthorised/licensed re-distribution, supply of adult material to minors). It's not unheard of.
If someone has it in for you, it's just more ammo for them..
WTF do you mean "extension to DOS"? You mean command line parameters (arguements)? Unix does the same thing. There are plenty of ways around using parameters under Windows, but they're more trouble to code for (IMO) for such a simple task, and not backward compatible - there is nothing wrong with the parameter method as long as idiot programms check their fucking buffers.
How does knowledge of how a btree works help someone figure out a driver issue?
Anyone who claims to be a geek should know at least vaguely what a btree is.. they teach that stuff at highschool along with network topologies, databases and spreadsheets. It's basic knowledge.
This is how MCSEs and suchlike happen - people who aren't real geeks and have no idea what's really going on, are taught to "click here, then here, then there" so when the icon moves, they're lost. Knowing what a btree is is just a part of "getting it" that anyone should have if they are let loose with powerful tools.
I wouldn't hire someone like Taco for anything either. Not knowing the difference between "their" and "they're" is just unacceptable, even if he didn't NEED to know and/or had spell checkers at his disposal. It'd be like showing up to the interview in board shorts, sandals, and a loud shirt... it may not affect one's actual job performance, but if the candidate can't even put in minimal effort, what am I expected to think?
I'd rank icon artists up with font artists. Neither are something that you'd typically think about, but holy shit, when you use a system with crappy fonts/icons (ie. go from your usual Mac/Win system to a crusty old Unix X terminal) it makes a hell of a difference.
they are referring to things like P2P/freenet, where the network's inherent replication of the 'service' (ie. your MP3s, DivXs and goat pr0n) means each node only knows of it's immediate peers, not the true source and destination.
Basically, The Man{Tm} considers P2P a greater/more likely threat (and more able to get it banned without Free Speech advocates going apeshit) to his control of us plebs than strong encryption. Encryption hides the content but not the source/destination, P2P hides the source/destination but not the content. One without the other makes life much more difficult for law enforcement. People have demonstrated they will not use encryption in day-to-day life (thereby making encrypted traffic special), but use P2P daily without a second thought.
My new EPIA 533Mhz shitbox scores 94.6 in "BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 4.1.0)" while my Celeron 333Mhz dinosaur scores 100.2. Kernel compiles are even slower.
"Compares well" = "I'm using hardware decoding so the CPU is mostly idle."
Net result will be that everyone will have to work that much, all the time
Easy fix: make it illegal to fire an employee for refusing excess overtime.. say 2 hours per week, or 40 hours total in any 90 day period. If the employee is OK with it, no problem.
As it should be anyway. If an employee needs to work overtime regularly, something's wrong: a) the employer is a tightarse and should hire sufficient people for the task, b) the employee is imcompetant and needs to be replaced with someone better. As it is, companies are getting to have their cake and eat it too - hire less people than required and claim it's up to them to complete the work assigned.
I know for sure serial does (I am from the 'olden days' - and I still run my dialup BBS). 8N1 is the most common - 8 data bits, no parity, one stop bit, and IIRC a start bit is always assumed - that's the 10 bits per byte. Next most common was 7E1, used by ancient minis and mainframes, which is still 10 bits.
Backbones OTOH, which typically use fiber, I don't know. There's still plenty of overhead to take into account, so sticking to the 10 bits per byte formula doesn't hurt any.
Warp 4 was released in 1996 - any copying (window close buttons, start menu, taskbar, etc) was by OS/2 off Win95 (for which MS copied of many other products as well, but Win95 was before Warp4)
Once we learn to read (at least, in English), we recognise words by their shape, not by their spellings (hence serifs and so on to improve readability).
Stick in a letter that fzucks up the wjord's chi and the error will be obviooz..
try perhaps writing "Letters to the Editor" (or some sort of consumer rights type column) to a few local computer magazines. They will generally contact the company in question, get their side of the story, and oh-by-the-way your dirty laundry is going to be in the next issue, so whatcha gonna do about it?
Bad PR is pretty good grease..
You may also have some industry body you can complain with as well. In Oz, that's the dept Fair Trading, Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman, ACCC, etc. Even if they can't do anything for you, registering the complaint gives them stats they can use later on if the problem gets bad enough.
A whole rant over one little thing. That's pretty thin.
The single menu bar is indicative of the Mac's single-tasking nature (not limited to the menu bar), which is a constant irritation for me (I have to use Macs daily at work, and I fucking hate them). The Mac menu bar is fine for an "appliance" but not for a computer, especially not for a multitasking computer and/or literate users.
And any programmer that implements modal dialogs (the kind that prevent me from doing ANYTHING else with the system, not just that one application), including MacOS programmers: file open dialogs for eg, should be shot, drawn, quartered and shot into the sun. And then REALLY hurt.
I have plenty of CD-Rs most definately over 2 years old (pushing 5 for some of them) - no failures yet. They're backups though, which unlike your wedding video are typically never used again (except for me to test of course) and not prone to acts of child/dog.
I suggest that you burn two DVDs and keep each at a separate location (one at work, one at home for eg). Reburn one (or both, if you want) of them every two or three years.
I expect my CDs to last up to 10 years, but like I said, they're mere backups that live in a CD folder and are rarely touched. You're talking about your wedding, not ancient pr0n/mp3 archives.
The FTC would just fuck the industry up. The price premium on SCSI funds advancement of the IDE market. All they would do is make SCSI slightly cheaper, and IDE more expensive.
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If you didn't pay for it, it's probably 'stolen' - ie. copyrighted.
There were raids on pr0n BBSs back in the 80's for various reasons (unauthorised/licensed re-distribution, supply of adult material to minors). It's not unheard of.
If someone has it in for you, it's just more ammo for them..
WTF do you mean "extension to DOS"? You mean command line parameters (arguements)? Unix does the same thing. There are plenty of ways around using parameters under Windows, but they're more trouble to code for (IMO) for such a simple task, and not backward compatible - there is nothing wrong with the parameter method as long as idiot programms check their fucking buffers.
This is how MCSEs and suchlike happen - people who aren't real geeks and have no idea what's really going on, are taught to "click here, then here, then there" so when the icon moves, they're lost. Knowing what a btree is is just a part of "getting it" that anyone should have if they are let loose with powerful tools.
I wouldn't hire someone like Taco for anything either. Not knowing the difference between "their" and "they're" is just unacceptable, even if he didn't NEED to know and/or had spell checkers at his disposal. It'd be like showing up to the interview in board shorts, sandals, and a loud shirt... it may not affect one's actual job performance, but if the candidate can't even put in minimal effort, what am I expected to think?
I'd rank icon artists up with font artists. Neither are something that you'd typically think about, but holy shit, when you use a system with crappy fonts/icons (ie. go from your usual Mac/Win system to a crusty old Unix X terminal) it makes a hell of a difference.
they are referring to things like P2P/freenet, where the network's inherent replication of the 'service' (ie. your MP3s, DivXs and goat pr0n) means each node only knows of it's immediate peers, not the true source and destination.
Basically, The Man{Tm} considers P2P a greater/more likely threat (and more able to get it banned without Free Speech advocates going apeshit) to his control of us plebs than strong encryption. Encryption hides the content but not the source/destination, P2P hides the source/destination but not the content. One without the other makes life much more difficult for law enforcement. People have demonstrated they will not use encryption in day-to-day life (thereby making encrypted traffic special), but use P2P daily without a second thought.
42. Stay the fuck away from "V838 Monocerotis" today.
Check.
Well, that's me done for today. Time to troll Slashdot...
My new EPIA 533Mhz shitbox scores 94.6 in "BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 4.1.0)" while my Celeron 333Mhz dinosaur scores 100.2. Kernel compiles are even slower.
"Compares well" = "I'm using hardware decoding so the CPU is mostly idle."
A beowulf cluster of these would be sucktacular.
I guess that's where unions come in. Everyone that fits a certain job description gets equal treatment, equal pay, and equal opporunity to advance.
Unions can be real bastards, but when employers are being bigger bastards, what do they expect?
As it should be anyway. If an employee needs to work overtime regularly, something's wrong: a) the employer is a tightarse and should hire sufficient people for the task, b) the employee is imcompetant and needs to be replaced with someone better. As it is, companies are getting to have their cake and eat it too - hire less people than required and claim it's up to them to complete the work assigned.
I know for sure serial does (I am from the 'olden days' - and I still run my dialup BBS). 8N1 is the most common - 8 data bits, no parity, one stop bit, and IIRC a start bit is always assumed - that's the 10 bits per byte. Next most common was 7E1, used by ancient minis and mainframes, which is still 10 bits.
Backbones OTOH, which typically use fiber, I don't know. There's still plenty of overhead to take into account, so sticking to the 10 bits per byte formula doesn't hurt any.
Depending on your communications medium, it's probably 10 bits per byte, not 8. And it's just easier for us humans to pretend it's 10 regardless.
Base 2 is pointless because comms people use SI prefixes properly*. 1 megabit = 1,000,000 bits. Base 10.
*Probably because not all platforms use 8 bit bytes (encoded to 10 bit bytes for transmission). The comms mfr's only care about the rate on the line.
Ran my BBS on it (and Merlin after it) for three years. I despise OS/2. But SIO and vmodem rocked.
If you read the GUI timeline section of the GUI Gallery site, you'll see Windows was always first with a certain Look-n-Feel {tm}
Windows 2.03 (1987) looked similar to OS/2 1.10 (1988), both GUIs written by Microsoft.
Windows 3.0 (1990) looked similar to OS/2 2.0 (1992)
Windows 95 (1995) looked similar to OS.2 4.0 (1996).
Warp 4 was released in 1996 - any copying (window close buttons, start menu, taskbar, etc) was by OS/2 off Win95 (for which MS copied of many other products as well, but Win95 was before Warp4)
Warp3 was more Win3.x-ish.
Once we learn to read (at least, in English), we recognise words by their shape, not by their spellings (hence serifs and so on to improve readability).
Stick in a letter that fzucks up the wjord's chi and the error will be obviooz..
yeah, but their karma whoring skills were never in doubt.
try perhaps writing "Letters to the Editor" (or some sort of consumer rights type column) to a few local computer magazines. They will generally contact the company in question, get their side of the story, and oh-by-the-way your dirty laundry is going to be in the next issue, so whatcha gonna do about it?
Bad PR is pretty good grease..
You may also have some industry body you can complain with as well. In Oz, that's the dept Fair Trading, Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman, ACCC, etc. Even if they can't do anything for you, registering the complaint gives them stats they can use later on if the problem gets bad enough.
Wasn't Endeavour built to replace Challenger? -1 +1 -1 = -1
Then again, they're down like ten or something compared to what the fleet was supposed to be..
A whole rant over one little thing. That's pretty thin.
The single menu bar is indicative of the Mac's single-tasking nature (not limited to the menu bar), which is a constant irritation for me (I have to use Macs daily at work, and I fucking hate them). The Mac menu bar is fine for an "appliance" but not for a computer, especially not for a multitasking computer and/or literate users.
And any programmer that implements modal dialogs (the kind that prevent me from doing ANYTHING else with the system, not just that one application), including MacOS programmers: file open dialogs for eg, should be shot, drawn, quartered and shot into the sun. And then REALLY hurt.
I have plenty of CD-Rs most definately over 2 years old (pushing 5 for some of them) - no failures yet. They're backups though, which unlike your wedding video are typically never used again (except for me to test of course) and not prone to acts of child/dog.
I suggest that you burn two DVDs and keep each at a separate location (one at work, one at home for eg). Reburn one (or both, if you want) of them every two or three years.
I expect my CDs to last up to 10 years, but like I said, they're mere backups that live in a CD folder and are rarely touched. You're talking about your wedding, not ancient pr0n/mp3 archives.
..after hdz you use devfs (eg. /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0)
Umm...wot? Samba on ext2: 2GB limit. Samba on XFS: no 2GB limit (and ACLs. Schwing!)
Fuck even dd or cat won't do >2GB on ext2.
Doesn't worry me, it won't be released for another 7 years. Plenty of time to upgrade.
The FTC would just fuck the industry up. The price premium on SCSI funds advancement of the IDE market. All they would do is make SCSI slightly cheaper, and IDE more expensive.
IIRC, they adopted the IBM name from a company they bought.