As I said, it WON'T protect you from debree or other bad circumstances if you are in the wrong place. But most people aren't crushed and aren't killed by stuff in the water - they drown. The key to avoid drowning is to stay above water, and only a life jacket is going to help you there, so yes a life jackt is all you need if you have no where to go and it's the only thing that's going to help you. It won't garantee that you live, but it certainly raises you chances a lot. But really if a tsunami were comming and you couldn't eveacuate on land, your best chance is to go out to sea somehow - but since we're talking masses of people that's not practical either.
Did I say it was like falling into the ocean? No. The water comes in fast, but not like it all literally falls on you either. If there are inital tidal waves then a life jacket will still make sure you come up above the surface. Now where you end up afterwards, or if you have problems with debree I couldn't say, but really a life jacket is all you need.
Depends on where the people are. In NYC for example you don't need to go anywhere, just in a tall enough building and there are more than enough in NYC. In all honesty to survive a tsunami doesn't require much more than a life preserver - and an hour is enough time to put on a life jacket.
Dude, a K6-2 probably uses SDRAM, and that's not ancient (dated yes). You can probably find old computers that people are going to throw away and just tear it out. Personally I've got SDRAM,EDO, and whatever the hell came before that comming out of my ears because I refuse to throw it out even if I can't use it. You can probably get stuff off of ebay to suppliment the machine save nothing else.
The IA64 is technoligically impressive yes, but that's the easy part when you have a clean slate. At one time the SPARC was going to be the "new technology" processor, but over the years has ended up nearly as crufty. Over time any processor design will show it's age. The x86-64 might not be innovative enough, but in 10 years we'd say the same thing about IA64.
Once Intel announced "Okay everyone dump your code, we have a new processor" it was just the sort of opening AMD needed to come up with a 64bit extension. I'm sure AMD could have come up with something just as impressive, but the market wants x86 (and their legacy apps) more than a shiny new processor archetecture.
Anyway, it's interesting to read these kids' descriptions of old games. Of course, these games are way retro; these came out before I really got into gaming, so I don't attach quite the level of nostalgia to it as others do. Now if they played doom or wolf3d and said that was crap, then I'd be like "wtf"
I've experienced the same sort of thing. A friend of mine insists on playing Galaga (against me) whenever we go to a certain resturant. He's totally into the game, while I'm just sort of ho-hum since it was before my time. Now you get me playing 1943 or Twin Cobra and I'm totally into it (or any other move the joystick and push the button really fast scroller). Eventually you have to look at the game from an objective point of view, and just take note that most games are really pretty crappy, regardless of their graphics. But some classics will always shine above all others - like Defender for example. A good game is all about fun and gameplay - and that's pretty much timeless.
Actually I'm thinking that the profit was probably okay. More and more I'm finding that Amazon is just a front end for a bunch of other stores. That means they don't have to keep things in stock, they just cut off a margin for themselves and let another store sell you the stuff.
That's one reason I've been ordering less from Amazon. You buy 3 things and you get nailed 3 times for shipping.
With the current model that FreeBSD uses, I doubt 6x will be any more usable than 5x. While I don't claim to know the guts of FreeBSD, I'm starting to see validity in why DragonFly forked the code. Much of the current code is just to complex, and I think that FreeBSD pushing back stable so long supports that theory. There's a lot of good things in 5.3, but some stuff that sucks too. Either way I'm not worried, either FreeBSD will get it together, or DragonFly will catch up with 5x (but with better code).
No the service pack is so you have to "upgrade" to windows XP in order to become secure. I find it unlikely that it's impossible to secure windows 2000 in such a way, but MS doesn't seem interested in that. Instead they want to push more people off of 2000 since there wasn't the landslide migration they expected. It's their OS so I guess they can do what they want with it. In the end if it helps secure clueless home users, it's better for everyone.
Good for SkyOS, possibly, rather a non-event from a Firefox perspective, at least numbers-wise
I wonder if Open Source might finally be the answer that anyone who is making a new OS is looking for. You can make the best OS there is but the first question is "are there any applications". With open source you get the code so it's always possible (although perhaps not likely) to port an Open Source app to a new OS. Maybe this will finally empower new developers to make an OS that really does something instead of being a cool "proof of concept" thing.
Well I think you miss my point. By moving things to ports you really lose nothing, but gain flexibility. If CVS is that important (and I'm not saying it's not) then make it a port that is always installed. If you don't like it, just remove it later. The only reason I use CVS at all is to fetch the sources, and that is only on my ports building server, all other servers retrieve the ports tree through rsync. By contrast I use RCS all the time, but why in the hell is that a part of the base system? I've used Linux for quite some time, and one of the things I grew to like about BSD was the division of system and software. But they more I thought about it the more I came to realize that there is just a lot of "stuff" that is considered part of they system for no other reason than "it's always been there". I think it's time the BSDs start taking a look at becomming a bit more modular and auditing their needs vs what doesn't really need to be there.
As OpenBSD devs said, sendmail has had a lot more testing and those security holes have been ironed out, so technically it's more 'reliable' than postfix which is much newer.
Well regardless of if it's "more secure" or not, I'd say it really doesn't need to be there, and bind doesn't need to be either. Taking perl out of the base install was a win/win situation for those who didn't want it and for those who do (no more ancient perl version to contend with). FreeBSD still compels you to install Perl, but it won't fall over dead if you don't. Likewise it would be nice to make things like bind,cvs, and sendmail options - which would speed up buildworld save nothing else.
I was going to post the same thing but I've had no problems with BSD Mall. I typically forward the cost of one purchase for each customer I install a FreeBSD server onsite.
That aside, they had some sort of cool looking new covers for their media - one was a chess knight and one was a firehydrant (have no clue what that represents), but now it looks like it's changed back to the more boring white cover with the daemon. Anyone know what that's about?
That's strange, because when I install MS Office 2000 on machines here, each user is greeted with a quick "Please wait for Microsoft Office setup" message upon first open. Granted it's only momentary, but it's there.
Yes, and that only needs to happen once if I recall. Once MSOffice (we use 2000 as well) is installed, you just need to run it as administrator and it's good to go. Using a default domain profile with most of this set up means that there is no user intervention needed. Now I'd like to think that I could ensure that a machine is correctly set up, but the reality is that new users will be comming in to other locations and I will not have control over them actually correctly setting things up. Some will probably install it correctly, some will cancel, some will set the associations up wrong... I've seen it happen more than I'd like to think about.
Basically I just want OpenOffice to set up on a machine for all users at once. Without a complete setup on a per-machine basis, there's no way I can garantee a correct install - and that means headaches for everyone down the road.
Well I don't really consider that to be a multiuser install when each user has to run a setup for it to work. As far as I know 1x always installs start menu options into the users menu, not all-users. Unless each user runs the setup, that means that all the file associations are probably also messed up.
Does Open Office finally install on windows correctly with a multi-user option? I know they were talking about it, but as of 2-3 months ago the developer build still didn't really seem to try during installation. For the average user I suppose it doesn't really matter, but where I work it's holding back deployment a bit.
One of the biggest problems I've seen is how you get air in and out of the case. My P133 was always really noisy and I switched fans out quite a bit. Eventually I "Got a clue" and noticed that the exaust fan for the power supply had to go through a "grate" in the case. A lot of fans will end up making noise regardless because they end up smashing air against the case and making more noise. So after ripping out the case grill with a pliers and replacing it with a simple wire grill, I can't even tell the machine is on ( or wouldn't if it weren't for the damn hard drive ).
Assuming that they learn Japanese to get a job. I mean it's just as relavent to learn Japanese to pick up Japanese chicks. Assuming that half the population is female, that extends your mating pool to 63 Million more women who won't talk to you (even in another language).
Personally I've actually used my (TERRIBLE) Japanese to feign that I'm not American in other countries.
or you could spend a whopping 5 seconds writing a regular expression to verify the id. I've seen my share of stuff that's vulerable to SQL injection, and it's pretty sad really. What in the hell ever happened to error checking? I really don't like PHP, but at times I think that the majority of the problems I have with it are the masses of sloppy lazy coders who preach how wonderfully easy it is. That may be so, but you still need to freaking THINK your solutions through. -_-
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As I said, it WON'T protect you from debree or other bad circumstances if you are in the wrong place. But most people aren't crushed and aren't killed by stuff in the water - they drown. The key to avoid drowning is to stay above water, and only a life jacket is going to help you there, so yes a life jackt is all you need if you have no where to go and it's the only thing that's going to help you. It won't garantee that you live, but it certainly raises you chances a lot. But really if a tsunami were comming and you couldn't eveacuate on land, your best chance is to go out to sea somehow - but since we're talking masses of people that's not practical either.
Did I say it was like falling into the ocean? No. The water comes in fast, but not like it all literally falls on you either. If there are inital tidal waves then a life jacket will still make sure you come up above the surface. Now where you end up afterwards, or if you have problems with debree I couldn't say, but really a life jacket is all you need.
Depends on where the people are. In NYC for example you don't need to go anywhere, just in a tall enough building and there are more than enough in NYC. In all honesty to survive a tsunami doesn't require much more than a life preserver - and an hour is enough time to put on a life jacket.
Dude, a K6-2 probably uses SDRAM, and that's not ancient (dated yes). You can probably find old computers that people are going to throw away and just tear it out. Personally I've got SDRAM,EDO, and whatever the hell came before that comming out of my ears because I refuse to throw it out even if I can't use it. You can probably get stuff off of ebay to suppliment the machine save nothing else.
look at the bright side. If you live for another 40 or 50 years, you'll almost live an extra half second.
I'm not sure why you would want to switch. Every release of OSX thus far has made the computer faster not slower.
The IA64 is technoligically impressive yes, but that's the easy part when you have a clean slate. At one time the SPARC was going to be the "new technology" processor, but over the years has ended up nearly as crufty. Over time any processor design will show it's age. The x86-64 might not be innovative enough, but in 10 years we'd say the same thing about IA64.
Once Intel announced "Okay everyone dump your code, we have a new processor" it was just the sort of opening AMD needed to come up with a 64bit extension. I'm sure AMD could have come up with something just as impressive, but the market wants x86 (and their legacy apps) more than a shiny new processor archetecture.
Anyway, it's interesting to read these kids' descriptions of old games. Of course, these games are way retro; these came out before I really got into gaming, so I don't attach quite the level of nostalgia to it as others do. Now if they played doom or wolf3d and said that was crap, then I'd be like "wtf"
I've experienced the same sort of thing. A friend of mine insists on playing Galaga (against me) whenever we go to a certain resturant. He's totally into the game, while I'm just sort of ho-hum since it was before my time. Now you get me playing 1943 or Twin Cobra and I'm totally into it (or any other move the joystick and push the button really fast scroller). Eventually you have to look at the game from an objective point of view, and just take note that most games are really pretty crappy, regardless of their graphics. But some classics will always shine above all others - like Defender for example. A good game is all about fun and gameplay - and that's pretty much timeless.
Actually I'm thinking that the profit was probably okay. More and more I'm finding that Amazon is just a front end for a bunch of other stores. That means they don't have to keep things in stock, they just cut off a margin for themselves and let another store sell you the stuff.
That's one reason I've been ordering less from Amazon. You buy 3 things and you get nailed 3 times for shipping.
With the current model that FreeBSD uses, I doubt 6x will be any more usable than 5x. While I don't claim to know the guts of FreeBSD, I'm starting to see validity in why DragonFly forked the code. Much of the current code is just to complex, and I think that FreeBSD pushing back stable so long supports that theory. There's a lot of good things in 5.3, but some stuff that sucks too. Either way I'm not worried, either FreeBSD will get it together, or DragonFly will catch up with 5x (but with better code).
Friday the 13th, good friday, and my birthday.
Busy day for my apocalypse. Whew.
Also about a year before I retire, so I better live it up while I can. =)
No the service pack is so you have to "upgrade" to windows XP in order to become secure. I find it unlikely that it's impossible to secure windows 2000 in such a way, but MS doesn't seem interested in that. Instead they want to push more people off of 2000 since there wasn't the landslide migration they expected. It's their OS so I guess they can do what they want with it. In the end if it helps secure clueless home users, it's better for everyone.
Good for SkyOS, possibly, rather a non-event from a Firefox perspective, at least numbers-wise
I wonder if Open Source might finally be the answer that anyone who is making a new OS is looking for. You can make the best OS there is but the first question is "are there any applications". With open source you get the code so it's always possible (although perhaps not likely) to port an Open Source app to a new OS. Maybe this will finally empower new developers to make an OS that really does something instead of being a cool "proof of concept" thing.
I thought the lawsuit was dropped when they were going to split emacs into a text editor and an operating system.
er, wait that was windows.
a clue is something sco certainly does not have so I find that unlikely
Well I think you miss my point. By moving things to ports you really lose nothing, but gain flexibility. If CVS is that important (and I'm not saying it's not) then make it a port that is always installed. If you don't like it, just remove it later. The only reason I use CVS at all is to fetch the sources, and that is only on my ports building server, all other servers retrieve the ports tree through rsync. By contrast I use RCS all the time, but why in the hell is that a part of the base system? I've used Linux for quite some time, and one of the things I grew to like about BSD was the division of system and software. But they more I thought about it the more I came to realize that there is just a lot of "stuff" that is considered part of they system for no other reason than "it's always been there". I think it's time the BSDs start taking a look at becomming a bit more modular and auditing their needs vs what doesn't really need to be there.
As OpenBSD devs said, sendmail has had a lot more testing and those security holes have been ironed out, so technically it's more 'reliable' than postfix which is much newer.
Well regardless of if it's "more secure" or not, I'd say it really doesn't need to be there, and bind doesn't need to be either. Taking perl out of the base install was a win/win situation for those who didn't want it and for those who do (no more ancient perl version to contend with). FreeBSD still compels you to install Perl, but it won't fall over dead if you don't. Likewise it would be nice to make things like bind,cvs, and sendmail options - which would speed up buildworld save nothing else.
I was going to post the same thing but I've had no problems with BSD Mall. I typically forward the cost of one purchase for each customer I install a FreeBSD server onsite.
That aside, they had some sort of cool looking new covers for their media - one was a chess knight and one was a firehydrant (have no clue what that represents), but now it looks like it's changed back to the more boring white cover with the daemon. Anyone know what that's about?
That's strange, because when I install MS Office 2000 on machines here, each user is greeted with a quick "Please wait for Microsoft Office setup" message upon first open. Granted it's only momentary, but it's there.
Yes, and that only needs to happen once if I recall. Once MSOffice (we use 2000 as well) is installed, you just need to run it as administrator and it's good to go. Using a default domain profile with most of this set up means that there is no user intervention needed. Now I'd like to think that I could ensure that a machine is correctly set up, but the reality is that new users will be comming in to other locations and I will not have control over them actually correctly setting things up. Some will probably install it correctly, some will cancel, some will set the associations up wrong... I've seen it happen more than I'd like to think about.
Basically I just want OpenOffice to set up on a machine for all users at once. Without a complete setup on a per-machine basis, there's no way I can garantee a correct install - and that means headaches for everyone down the road.
Well I don't really consider that to be a multiuser install when each user has to run a setup for it to work. As far as I know 1x always installs start menu options into the users menu, not all-users. Unless each user runs the setup, that means that all the file associations are probably also messed up.
Does Open Office finally install on windows correctly with a multi-user option? I know they were talking about it, but as of 2-3 months ago the developer build still didn't really seem to try during installation. For the average user I suppose it doesn't really matter, but where I work it's holding back deployment a bit.
One of the biggest problems I've seen is how you get air in and out of the case. My P133 was always really noisy and I switched fans out quite a bit. Eventually I "Got a clue" and noticed that the exaust fan for the power supply had to go through a "grate" in the case. A lot of fans will end up making noise regardless because they end up smashing air against the case and making more noise. So after ripping out the case grill with a pliers and replacing it with a simple wire grill, I can't even tell the machine is on ( or wouldn't if it weren't for the damn hard drive ).
Assuming that they learn Japanese to get a job. I mean it's just as relavent to learn Japanese to pick up Japanese chicks. Assuming that half the population is female, that extends your mating pool to 63 Million more women who won't talk to you (even in another language).
Personally I've actually used my (TERRIBLE) Japanese to feign that I'm not American in other countries.
or you could spend a whopping 5 seconds writing a regular expression to verify the id. I've seen my share of stuff that's vulerable to SQL injection, and it's pretty sad really. What in the hell ever happened to error checking? I really don't like PHP, but at times I think that the majority of the problems I have with it are the masses of sloppy lazy coders who preach how wonderfully easy it is. That may be so, but you still need to freaking THINK your solutions through. -_-
Notice the trend?
Yeah, renewing my domain name is going to be like looking at my phone bill. Tons of strange charges that make absolutely no sense.