I'm being a bit anal here, but you can of course connect more than 2 computers with a crossover cable, assuming you don't mind installing multiple ethernet cards in at least one system.
Ooh! just like a tokenring, what fun.. Talk about single ring of failure;)
Phone jacks are not the same, but the line standard is, so buying a modem cord from a computer shop such as PC World (aka. Satan), should work, it did for a friend of mine last year.
Definately do the Canyon.. and try really hard to be there for sunrise if possible (go 1/2 a mile or so East from the main village, for a really good view), it is awesome.
I know jack about UK laws too, despite being born and living there until I got wise and got to the Netherlands.
But in my personal experience if you refuse to be searched you are arrested, taken to a station and forcibly searched, then they dont find anything, and you're told to piss off and not given an apology. At which point I finally stopped polightly saying 'No' and told the policemen what I though of them. At which point I was officially cautioned for 'offensive behaviour'! I did make them aware of their double standards in this respect.
Looking across thge road I can read a similar billboard from my office window.. (in Dutch) I keep trying to think of a humorous way to deface it, but nothing springs to mind.
I think one of the best counter-arguments about these filter products is the fact that most of them block any discussion or critisism about themselves.. This is a good starting place for any discussion about them with people who think they are 'a good thing' on principle. I says a lot about the ethics of the organisations and companies promoting them.
We get a free PC, fairly high spec. Basically you get a budget and build your own system from a major supplier (ok.. Dell;). I've yet to hear of anyone getting a Linux system, but I never even opened the NT bundle that came with mine. And you can chip in for extra bits (like a 19' FST monitor).
The problem is that it's value reduces pro-rata for three years after you get it, leave before then, you have to pay off the outstanding balance. Which given the depreciation and rapid obselescance (sp?) on PC's sucks. If you leave early, say after a year, you still owe 3500 Nlg (Dutch Guilders) on a PC which is worth maybe 2000 (tops) by that time.
But if you stay it's not a bad deal (which is no doubt part of the plan). I think it is aimed most at the staff who would not otherwise buy a decent PC (we're not all techies here), and for them I think it is a good idea, gives them experience, etc.. Even if it is experience in the wrong OS.
The problem with this is that a lot of links these days are really (hundreds of characters sometimes) long, the browsers I know display the target left-justified, so I often can't see whole link without doing some painful stuff.
Plus, I might have a good idea what to look for, but the vast majority of folks wouldn't know a scriptlet from a rubber duck. How does this sort of advice help my parents? A ten minute talk about 'trust' will do a lot more for them.
Call me slow, but I just now realized that most of the moderators here, supposedly my fellow geeks, have no sense of humor. Actually this is considerably more amusing, inventive and damn clever than 98% of stuff you see on/.
Maybe we need to start a/. troll songbook. then get together and record it sung in rounds.
Much as I hate to give trolls the rise they want. This was just too funny, made me laugh for the first time today, and I was in a miserable mood before. So just a little personal thanks.
This is a far cry from some of the more interesting traffic control measures that have been tried in England, such as cardboard cut-outs of police cars, in strategically-located places, where drivers can't tell if it's real or not. It's worked very well, in the past, without infringing on anyone's rights and without costing the taxpayer an arm and a leg.
My mates have one in their sitting room, I'm green with envy. Last I heard they had all been nicked by students;)
As a sysadmin I did some research and the biggest difference is made by simple things.
Get your chair high, so your forearm is level, put a wristrest on the keyboard (the M$ style ergo keyboards I find do not have a high enough rest area, which is a pity since they are excellent otherwise) the idea is that you type 'down' on the keyboard. Then get the monitor top at eye-level, (a box full of old manuals works really well here, and can take thew weight). Finally get a really thin mousemat (again, to keep your wrist as level as possible) Just these simple things make a great difference. I seriously reduced the number of users complaining of cramps and headaches by doing this, and was amused that a 'professional' audit conducted a year later found very little to improve.
Not internally, though some had an idea this may happen, it won't affect me much anyway.
Rational makes diverse sw engineering / development / testing tools, for quite a few platforms though windows more than most.. Also does a lot of process oriented stuff, and all the tools are migrating towards supporting the UML, so that small/mid companies can buy 'process in a box'. The hard part is keeping enough flexability so that places who already have a well developed process are not restricted.
I work on the Unix side of things here and while not perfect, I'm glad I made the switch from my old 'dilbert-esque' employers.
Look at the website for lots of info and gratuitous advertising;) www.rational.com
I disagree about cost of living, meybe out in the sticks but here in the RandStaadt (sp?) I reckon it ends up pretty equivalent to the UK. Food/beer/eating out is much cheaper, but the cost of acommodation is hideous if you want to live in a big city, and the cost of running a car is hideous if you live in a village, The cost of owning a car and living in Amsterdam was enough to make me sell it and take the tram.
> The ridiculous extreme to this is of course, the humble toaster - a device so incredibly simple that there can be no imaginable benefit to having it networked... but it is anyway.
Aaah! but then you can get an email to say 'Your toast is ready'. And the NSA could monitor this so they know who the pinko toast lovers are. And micro$oft could have a toast client as a 'integrated' part of their next OS to put Murphy Richards (sp?) out of business.
Anybody remember 'Talkie Toaster' from Red Dwarf 1. I have seen the future and it toasts.
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I'm being a bit anal here, but you can of course connect more than 2 computers with a crossover cable, assuming you don't mind installing multiple ethernet cards in at least one system.
;)
Ooh! just like a tokenring, what fun.. Talk about single ring of failure
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Phone jacks are not the same, but the line standard is, so buying a modem cord from a computer shop such as PC World (aka. Satan), should work, it did for a friend of mine last year.
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Definately do the Canyon.. and try really hard to be there for sunrise if possible (go 1/2 a mile or so East from the main village, for a really good view), it is awesome.
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I had to do similar, traveling for a few monts on business.
;)
I used Compu$erve, simply because they support a normal PPP interface, and I didn't feel -quite- such a dork handing out csi.com addresses
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I know jack about UK laws too, despite being born and living there until I got wise and got to the Netherlands.
But in my personal experience if you refuse to be searched you are arrested, taken to a station and forcibly searched, then they dont find anything, and you're told to piss off and not given an apology. At which point I finally stopped polightly saying 'No' and told the policemen what I though of them. At which point I was officially cautioned for 'offensive behaviour'! I did make them aware of their double standards in this respect.
Not that I'm bitter or anything.
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But, on the off-chance it -is- soup, I'll have a cup, with some cheese and a slice of bread, please.
Presumably you could have fun naming any bigger particles that may exist in the soup, how about croutons and noodleons.
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At first I thought:
'All the reliability of a mother'!
but then I re-read it..
Looking across thge road I can read a similar billboard from my office window.. (in Dutch) I keep trying to think of a humorous way to deface it, but nothing springs to mind.
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I appreciated that..
but then I'm a sad -old- git.
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YACC, geddit!
But
A) I may not be original (didn't read da whole thread)
B) It's probably just not cuddly enough..
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I stand corrected, I must confess I'm a -lot- more comfortable about censorware that can at least be honest about it's modus operandi..
This also means I just overexaggerated like mad to my parents. HoHum.
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I think one of the best counter-arguments about these filter products is the fact that most of them block any discussion or critisism about themselves.. This is a good starting place for any discussion about them with people who think they are 'a good thing' on principle. I says a lot about the ethics of the organisations and companies promoting them.
EZ
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We get a free PC, fairly high spec. Basically you get a budget and build your own system from a major supplier (ok.. Dell ;). I've yet to hear of anyone getting a Linux system, but I never even opened the NT bundle that came with mine. And you can chip in for extra bits (like a 19' FST monitor).
The problem is that it's value reduces pro-rata for three years after you get it, leave before then, you have to pay off the outstanding balance. Which given the depreciation and rapid obselescance (sp?) on PC's sucks. If you leave early, say after a year, you still owe 3500 Nlg (Dutch Guilders) on a PC which is worth maybe 2000 (tops) by that time.
But if you stay it's not a bad deal (which is no doubt part of the plan). I think it is aimed most at the staff who would not otherwise buy a decent PC (we're not all techies here), and for them I think it is a good idea, gives them experience, etc.. Even if it is experience in the wrong OS.
EZ
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The problem with this is that a lot of links these days are really (hundreds of characters sometimes) long, the browsers I know display the target left-justified, so I often can't see whole link without doing some painful stuff.
Plus, I might have a good idea what to look for, but the vast majority of folks wouldn't know a scriptlet from a rubber duck. How does this sort of advice help my parents? A ten minute talk about 'trust' will do a lot more for them.
EZ
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Call me slow, but I just now realized that most of the moderators here, supposedly my fellow geeks, have no sense of humor. /.
/. troll songbook. then get together and record it sung in rounds.
Actually this is considerably more amusing, inventive and damn clever than 98% of stuff you see on
Maybe we need to start a
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Much as I hate to give trolls the rise they want.
This was just too funny, made me laugh for the first time today, and I was in a miserable mood before.
So just a little personal thanks.
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There's no 'Bill' figure ;(
And I had so many plans about what I could do with one.
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I went to the lander main site, and clicked the landing Site link, and I can't find any mention of 'bloody great canyon' anywhere..
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Looks like a standard list of /. postings to me..
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This is a far cry from some of the more interesting traffic control measures that have been tried in England, such as cardboard cut-outs of police cars, in strategically-located places, where drivers can't tell if it's real or not. It's worked very well, in the past, without infringing on anyone's rights and without costing the taxpayer an arm and a leg.
;)
My mates have one in their sitting room, I'm green with envy. Last I heard they had all been nicked by students
EZ
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As a sysadmin I did some research and the biggest difference is made by simple things.
Get your chair high, so your forearm is level, put a wristrest on the keyboard (the M$ style ergo keyboards I find do not have a high enough rest area, which is a pity since they are excellent otherwise) the idea is that you type 'down' on the keyboard.
Then get the monitor top at eye-level, (a box full of old manuals works really well here, and can take thew weight). Finally get a really thin mousemat (again, to keep your wrist as level as possible) Just these simple things make a great difference.
I seriously reduced the number of users complaining of cramps and headaches by doing this, and was amused that a 'professional' audit conducted a year later found very little to improve.
EZ
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Not internally, though some had an idea this may happen, it won't affect me much anyway.
;)
Rational makes diverse sw engineering / development / testing tools, for quite a few platforms though windows more than most.. Also does a lot of process oriented stuff, and all the tools are migrating towards supporting the UML, so that small/mid companies can buy 'process in a box'. The hard part is keeping enough flexability so that places who already have a well developed process are not restricted.
I work on the Unix side of things here and while not perfect, I'm glad I made the switch from my old 'dilbert-esque' employers.
Look at the website for lots of info and gratuitous advertising
www.rational.com
You said:
> Ummmm.. They already bought Rational.
Ummmm, no they didn't..
I should know, I work for them, this is also a disclaimer.
I disagree about cost of living, meybe out in the sticks but here in the RandStaadt (sp?) I reckon it ends up pretty equivalent to the UK. Food/beer/eating out is much cheaper, but the cost of acommodation is hideous if you want to live in a big city, and the cost of running a car is hideous if you live in a village, The cost of owning a car and living in Amsterdam was enough to make me sell it and take the tram.
I just missed a perfect oppertunity to say:
'You've got Toast'
sigh..
> The ridiculous extreme to this is of course, the humble toaster - a device so incredibly simple that there can be no imaginable benefit to having it networked... but it is anyway.
Aaah! but then you can get an email to say 'Your toast is ready'. And the NSA could monitor this so they know who the pinko toast lovers are. And micro$oft could have a toast client as a 'integrated' part of their next OS to put Murphy Richards (sp?) out of business.
Anybody remember 'Talkie Toaster' from Red Dwarf 1. I have seen the future and it toasts.