In an unrelated note if anyone happens to have a camera they want to get rid of that can display decent pictures at 3 to 10 lux, I know someone that has a place to put a camera that a number of penguins walk by every day.
I've got a company supplied PC to my specs, cable modem (maybe adsl soon). They also supply the pager and cell phone. I don't need a health club membership, the places I go don't work that way. So out of the top 5 I'm only out the car but they even offered a loan at a very good rate.
As far as the bottom 5, I've got a pool table, my t-shirts don't like drycleaning, I can't dance, and I don't like the idea of the company paying for a haircut.
One thing to consider is what happens to your "free stuff" when you change jobs. It looks like these perks may just be a another way to lock people into a position.
And I'm working right now...and next week I start a two week vacation.
A friend of mine runs classes teaching geeks how to interact with women. Odd thing is even at 5 grand a week she still gets business than she can deal with.
The problem is that the core routers are doing the wrong job.
Assume that all allocations are all/24. Now if that core router has 16 interfaces, you need 16 million nibbles of memory for its table. Thats 8Mb. You only get into trouble when you have several good routes for the same destination and then you need to do a level if indirection where you can look at that routers entry in the full routing tables. You build a seprate system to update those tables since they don't have to be real-time, they have several seconds after updates to get the swtich table updated.
Wal*Mart is going to hurt the image of the people that Mandrake stable. Their solution should be to kill 7.2 now with a 7.4. This will keep Wal*Mart from selling pre-release software.
Keep in mind that Linux is now in the main stream and many of the new users don't understand the concept of open source. Go talk to your mother about it and see just how much you have to explain.
It with qt and perl is currently taking 501m on
my disk.
It takes 7 hrs to compile on my 366mhz Celeron.
You do a compile qt, then kde2, then qt again
and maybe any program that uses the kde addons for qt.
kdm is real broken in lots of silly ways. If you build from scratch keep the old version. If you want a fast knonsole keep the old one too since its starts up much faster.
It would be very cool if one could drive any kde program completly with they keyboard. (you know like you can do with windows)
If you remember way back to the early days of the 8088/6 you will remember that they were competing with Motorola who had a much better cpu and they had Hitaci as a second source so equipment producers had some protection. Intel was had to do something to combat that issue and they came up with a people to do cross license deals with. These included IBM and AMD (with the 8087 since Amd knew floating point and Intel didn't). At that time Intel was doing deals with lots of people tring to catch up. Some of thouse were National Semi to get some ip devices (like the extended 16450 junk). Now Intel is selling to consumers and not engineers so they can afford to blow off everyone else or so they think. It might be their downfall.
It looks like what is needed is a multi-key type system. The idea is you generate some keys and get a semi-trusted 3rd party to keep one. Then to decrypt the data, you need your key and the trusted 3rd pary's key to decrypt any data. Even if you are forced to turn over your key, the other party may simply refused to turn over their key. This can be assisted by having either several keys that are all required and having friends that are far away. Add a tamper switch on the box that can be remotly tested by the 3rd party and you'll have one tough system to crack.
The Eftpos machines (credit card swipe devices that also use atm like encrytpion for debit cards) used in Australia have a key loaded into ram with the program. The tamper switch kills the power to the ram so the program and keys are all destoryed when you open the case.
When was the last time the drives where cleaned? I expect never.
I can't remcomend flash memory. I've got a rio with a bad sector 0. opps. I've also got two 32mb memory cards and they both have lots of bad blocks and they are getting worse.
CD burners in a public lab is a disaster. With a floppy you trash 1.4m, with a cd that goes bad you end up trashing up to 640mb.
Anytime you have a public lab, your going to have touble with the media. It doesn't matter if its 3.5" disks or CD rom burners they all are going to become flakey because they get more use than they are designed for and are never maintined. The cheapest solution may be a rotating schedule of trashing the floppy disk drives.
Compact flash is out. Ever see thouse little pins on the connectors? They aren't public lab friendly.
Smartmedia. You can now get upto 64m on a small foot print but my use with the rio shows they aren't that easy to work with.
At a trade show I saw a USB flash device. It looks like it would come in small (4m?) and larger (64mb) and extra large (mp3) sizes. I don't know who makes it but it also had some sort of ID code that could be used to authentcate people as an excuse to get them installed.
When msc 5.x came out it was a much better compiler than any other that MS had ever developed before. At that point its optimiers actualy worked but like most it had a few flaws. Funny thing is that most of the flaws were the same that gcc had.
Now if someone just had time to prove that some of the code was lifted it could be quite interesting.
I had a floating point library that I wrote for the 6809. At 2mhz it was faster than the 8mhz 8087 floating point hardware. Not bad for software.
Its a shame that Motorola dumped the 6809. I would love to see something with lots of I/O like a 6811 with the 6809 core since it was so easy to code for.
What the guy at Ace2k said was that 3.9 was an upgrade that would add lots of new features as well as provide a migration path to the next version of stuff.
My microwave has a GUI. Its just quite limited in what it can display. Right now its saying something about 88:88.
Even my old TRS-80 had a GUI but it was quite lame too. It could put any one of 256 different graphic symbols on a number of non-overlapping locations on the screen. If you programmed it right, you could actualy see words!
They aren't devils, they are just ex-spooks. The founders of NSI used work for.gov including the NSA and CIA.
Could the problem with kam.com be that there are two companies having a private legal battle over it complete with an injection keeping it from being transfered?
A few years ago I saw a tv show about winners of the New York Lottery. The shows producers could only find two winners that weren't broke. Most of the past winners were bankrupt.
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Theres one way to be sure. We need a penguin-cam.
In an unrelated note if anyone happens to have a camera they want to get rid of that can display decent pictures at 3 to 10 lux, I know someone that has a place to put a camera that a number of penguins walk by every day.
In some towns I've worked in (Lynchburg, Warner Robins), Walmart is a popular place go to on dates.
I telecommute a few days a week.
I've got a company supplied PC to my specs, cable modem (maybe adsl soon). They also supply the pager and cell phone. I don't need a health club membership, the places I go don't work that way. So out of the top 5 I'm only out the car but they even offered a loan at a very good rate.
As far as the bottom 5, I've got a pool table, my t-shirts don't like drycleaning, I can't dance, and I don't like the idea of the company paying for a haircut.
One thing to consider is what happens to your "free stuff" when you change jobs. It looks like these perks may just be a another way to lock people into a position.
And I'm working right now...and next week I start a two week vacation.
A friend of mine runs classes teaching geeks how to interact with women. Odd thing is even at 5 grand a week she still gets business than she can deal with.
The problem is that the core routers are doing the wrong job.
/24. Now if that core router has 16 interfaces, you need 16 million nibbles of memory for its table. Thats 8Mb. You only get into trouble when you have several good routes for the same destination and then you need to do a level if indirection where you can look at that routers entry in the full routing tables. You build a seprate system to update those tables since they don't have to be real-time, they have several seconds after updates to get the swtich table updated.
Assume that all allocations are all
Wal*Mart is going to hurt the image of the people that Mandrake stable. Their solution should be to kill 7.2 now with a 7.4. This will keep Wal*Mart from selling pre-release software.
Keep in mind that Linux is now in the main stream and many of the new users don't understand the concept of open source. Go talk to your mother about it and see just how much you have to explain.
I decided to upgrade kde from source.
It with qt and perl is currently taking 501m on
my disk.
It takes 7 hrs to compile on my 366mhz Celeron.
You do a compile qt, then kde2, then qt again
and maybe any program that uses the kde addons for qt.
kdm is real broken in lots of silly ways. If you build from scratch keep the old version. If you want a fast knonsole keep the old one too since its starts up much faster.
It would be very cool if one could drive any kde program completly with they keyboard. (you know like you can do with windows)
If this is true then then mandrake team should burn the lusers who released sold the CDs to wal*mart and jack up the version number to 7.4
If you remember way back to the early days of the 8088/6 you will remember that they were competing with Motorola who had a much better cpu and they had Hitaci as a second source so equipment producers had some protection. Intel was had to do something to combat that issue and they came up with a people to do cross license deals with. These included IBM and AMD (with the 8087 since Amd knew floating point and Intel didn't). At that time Intel was doing deals with lots of people tring to catch up. Some of thouse were National Semi to get some ip devices (like the extended 16450 junk). Now Intel is selling to consumers and not engineers so they can afford to blow off everyone else or so they think. It might be their downfall.
It looks like what is needed is a multi-key type system. The idea is you generate some keys and get a semi-trusted 3rd party to keep one. Then to decrypt the data, you need your key and the trusted 3rd pary's key to decrypt any data. Even if you are forced to turn over your key, the other party may simply refused to turn over their key. This can be assisted by having either several keys that are all required and having friends that are far away. Add a tamper switch on the box that can be remotly tested by the 3rd party and you'll have one tough system to crack.
The Eftpos machines (credit card swipe devices that also use atm like encrytpion for debit cards) used in Australia have a key loaded into ram with the program. The tamper switch kills the power to the ram so the program and keys are all destoryed when you open the case.
Terrorist in NZ were targeting Aussies. You know its true 'cause its on the news.
At least there hasn't been a major power outage in a long time.
If you want to migrate to NZ you need to buy this first.
I think the Kiwi can't count.
Wellington was 158,275 in 1996.
Chch is about 324,300.
In most parts of the world those are towns.
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When was the last time the drives where cleaned? I expect never.
I can't remcomend flash memory. I've got a rio with a bad sector 0. opps. I've also got two 32mb memory cards and they both have lots of bad blocks and they are getting worse.
CD burners in a public lab is a disaster. With a floppy you trash 1.4m, with a cd that goes bad you end up trashing up to 640mb.
Anytime you have a public lab, your going to have touble with the media. It doesn't matter if its 3.5" disks or CD rom burners they all are going to become flakey because they get more use than they are designed for and are never maintined. The cheapest solution may be a rotating schedule of trashing the floppy disk drives.
Compact flash is out. Ever see thouse little pins on the connectors? They aren't public lab friendly.
Smartmedia. You can now get upto 64m on a small foot print but my use with the rio shows they aren't that easy to work with.
At a trade show I saw a USB flash device. It looks like it would come in small (4m?) and larger (64mb) and extra large (mp3) sizes. I don't know who makes it but it also had some sort of ID code that could be used to authentcate people as an excuse to get them installed.
When msc 5.x came out it was a much better compiler than any other that MS had ever developed before. At that point its optimiers actualy worked but like most it had a few flaws. Funny thing is that most of the flaws were the same that gcc had.
Now if someone just had time to prove that some of the code was lifted it could be quite interesting.
I had a floating point library that I wrote for the 6809. At 2mhz it was faster than the 8mhz 8087 floating point hardware. Not bad for software.
Its a shame that Motorola dumped the 6809. I would love to see something with lots of I/O like a 6811 with the 6809 core since it was so easy to code for.
I'm wondering how long it will be till thinkgeek has bsod tp banner adds on /.
The company will do 4 rolls for about $80.
You should be shaking in your boots.
The lart police are on their way to your house right now with a very large clue stick!
They can't have mapped the entire net and I've got logs to prove it.
How about these nice double and tripple homed hosts that generaly don't talk to their other network interface because its a backup?
The real solution to stopping this kind of snooping is have several connections and configure routers properly.
Ghandi vs Gandhi. Could it be that being born in South Africa and living in India could have resulted in at least two "english" spellings of his name?
What the guy at Ace2k said was that 3.9 was an upgrade that would add lots of new features as well as provide a migration path to the next version of stuff.
My microwave has a GUI. Its just quite limited in what it can display. Right now its saying something about 88:88.
Even my old TRS-80 had a GUI but it was quite lame too. It could put any one of 256 different graphic symbols on a number of non-overlapping locations on the screen. If you programmed it right, you could actualy see words!
They aren't devils, they are just ex-spooks. The founders of NSI used work for .gov including the NSA and CIA.
Could the problem with kam.com be that there are two companies having a private legal battle over it complete with an injection keeping it from being transfered?
Its a another sad day for the space race.
I was lucky enough to see it as it left this world.
Its sad that its first mission is over but it still may complete its final mission of telling others about who created it.
Sleep Pioneer, you've got a long way to go.
If its for sale, and its the only one of its kind, M$ will buy it.
A few years ago I saw a tv show about winners of the New York Lottery. The shows producers could only find two winners that weren't broke. Most of the past winners were bankrupt.