Think I'd use killdisk before I leave the company I work for (not that I do anything wrong, but just to make sure they don't dig anything up). It allows for up to 99 passes.
I really don't see how this could really speed up browsing that much. And I am VERY sceptical that it's anywhere near as fast as Opera 7. Seems to me that if it's that fast, it's because it doesn't show anything on the screen. And as for the 1000+ lines of code a day, I mean no one could do that even if the lines where just comments containing a blog. Well maybe my ex-girlfrend could, I mean she can carry on endlessly...
I keep thinking that more and more. I finally got to the point where I had to add another fan to keep the hard drives cool and thought to myself "yay, another fan". PC's are starting to get rediculas with the ammount of heat and noise they make.
If I were going to make a case I'd do it like something like these guys. Only I would have no little fans (except maybe on the processor), just one large 15 inch fan mounted on the top of a cube blowing in at a low RPM. I'm so tired of the noise from my PC right now, that my next (and only) case mod might be doing something similar by mounting a fan on the side of my case.
Those were my thoughts as well until I realized that microsoft is going to have major problems for one reason: scripting. Are they just going to say "No Scripting" on windows? I really don't see any practical way to ever "trust" a script of any sort. So I would imagine Microsoft will be putting "untrusted" applications in some sort of sandbox (and probably a disadvantage as some sort of penalty).
Small time apps will always be there no matter what MS wants. What Microsoft will eventually find is that their lack of open / free development tools is going to be a continual drag on windows development. I couldn't even begin to name all the development tools / languages you can use on Linux. On windows there is only a handfull and most if it is controlled by MS and is far from cheap. All this "trusted computing" stuff is just going to make Linux development more appealing.
More like "When I was your age _I_ was the remote control".
"Kid, change the chanel" Anyone remember that? Now that we have remote controls and automatic car washes, there really just aren't any good reasons to have kids.
Yes and no. Tenchi is one of THE classic anime series (ignoring the Tenchi in Tokyo disaster..) - which is probably why it surprised me that they were going to show a series that I really liked. Despite the misgivings you and I may have for DBZ, it gets watched and it gets watched a LOT. So it's sort of hard to point the finger on lack of quality for something that is so popular.
Theory A: Article never works because it's always slashdotted. Theory B: Some of us avoid reading an article to avoid slashdotting a server. Theory C: Some of us don't care about the topic and only want to read what others have to say. Then we randomly reply wherever we want, to stuff that was probably misinformed in the first place. If you want ontopic threads, post an ontopic summary.
Re:Geeks and Suits have a lot of in common
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Well putting them together explains the entire dot com deflation. Normally to make a buisness you need a geek AND a suit. In this model you get:
1) Make cool thing 2) Market, Advertize, sell 3) profit
Obviously this business can succeed. During the dot com era you got the other mix:
Good, then maybe some hacker will get confused and intercept my Adelphia cable TV hookup and inject some decent fucking cable programming for a change!
Try using them both for a while. Using Mozilla is starting to get a little heartbreaking for me. I finally downloaded Phoenix yesterday after Mozilla slowed to a crawl. Each download would spike a 99% cpu usage, and memory usage for Mozilla got up to around 270Mb.
This is on win2k so your milage may vary. I'm fairly happy with Mozilla on Linux so I haven't had any reason to switch.
A week after I was hired the computer with the sales database died. I'm the computer guy, so I'm supposed to fix it. I was a bit surprised at what I found (keep in mind this information is supposed to be fairly important information to the company).
The computer had around 256 megs of ram. Was a database server (for sales info) that around 3-4 people were connected to at any given time. Was running WINDOWS 98 using striped IDE hard drives. Among other things that this machine was used for at any given time was graphic editing in Corel Draw (wonderfully stable too I might add), and crash prone MS Office... as well as every God awful freeware screen saver ever found, and many other useless stuff that most people didn't even know what they were supposed to do. Apparently the machine crashed at least 3 times a day, and no one thought there was anything wrong with this.
So one drive dies, and surprise the backup is done on a jazz drive that never worked right. Apparently the girl who used the computer never really read that error message regarding the Jazz drive every morning when she came in. So we had a wonderfully redundant backup with a different Jazz disk for each day of the week with nothing but garbage on all of them.
When I actually put all the pieces of the puzzle together, I just started laughing at how ridiculous the setup was.
no problem, just have a station on with nothing but talk radio. Might give a chatty cab driver more reason to talk to the passengers too.
Re:Apple loves your money, too...
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Woz was SORT of okay? I mean the guy is brilliant, yet very humble. If it weren't for him, there would be no Apple today, yet he still gets paid around $50k a year. If you read about things that Woz has done, like giving his stocks away to other apple empoyees who missed out on the IPO, and teaching computer classes for poor kids you start to realize that Woz is probably a much better guy than most of us (no "sort of" about it).
My boss offered to give me a cell phone (me being the resident "computer guy"). After watching the head of maitenance for half a day with his cell phone (everyone calling with every problem ever 5 minutes) I said no thanks. Then again I'm biased because I don't like cell phones in the first place. It seems more and more like people are never "alone". I don't want phone calls when I'm driving (when I blast music so loud I doubt I'd hear it ring anyway), I don't want calls when I'm on a walk, I don't want calls when I'm eating, or out doing something. I could turn off the ringer, but then again I'd just never have it on at all if that were the case. Most of the time I'd just like my time to MYSELF.
If it makes you feel any better, I don't think OpenOffice.org has anything to do with this and is still bloated all on its own. It looks like Timothy misread OpenSource.org to be OpenOffice.org.
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Hmm.... in that scenario would Linux be the borg? Where there is no single point of power, only a "collective" in control.
Trickier than you might think considering slashdot editors spell most words in the english language with 3 or 4 incorrect variations.
Think I'd use killdisk before I leave the company I work for (not that I do anything wrong, but just to make sure they don't dig anything up). It allows for up to 99 passes.
I really don't see how this could really speed up browsing that much. And I am VERY sceptical that it's anywhere near as fast as Opera 7. Seems to me that if it's that fast, it's because it doesn't show anything on the screen. And as for the 1000+ lines of code a day, I mean no one could do that even if the lines where just comments containing a blog. Well maybe my ex-girlfrend could, I mean she can carry on endlessly...
I keep thinking that more and more. I finally got to the point where I had to add another fan to keep the hard drives cool and thought to myself "yay, another fan". PC's are starting to get rediculas with the ammount of heat and noise they make.
If I were going to make a case I'd do it like something like these guys. Only I would have no little fans (except maybe on the processor), just one large 15 inch fan mounted on the top of a cube blowing in at a low RPM. I'm so tired of the noise from my PC right now, that my next (and only) case mod might be doing something similar by mounting a fan on the side of my case.
Those were my thoughts as well until I realized that microsoft is going to have major problems for one reason: scripting. Are they just going to say "No Scripting" on windows? I really don't see any practical way to ever "trust" a script of any sort. So I would imagine Microsoft will be putting "untrusted" applications in some sort of sandbox (and probably a disadvantage as some sort of penalty).
Small time apps will always be there no matter what MS wants. What Microsoft will eventually find is that their lack of open / free development tools is going to be a continual drag on windows development. I couldn't even begin to name all the development tools / languages you can use on Linux. On windows there is only a handfull and most if it is controlled by MS and is far from cheap. All this "trusted computing" stuff is just going to make Linux development more appealing.
More like "When I was your age _I_ was the remote control".
"Kid, change the chanel" Anyone remember that? Now that we have remote controls and automatic car washes, there really just aren't any good reasons to have kids.
All file formats are safe, it's just the programs that read them.
The good news is that we'll probably get less dupes the more they start making stuff up.
Yes and no. Tenchi is one of THE classic anime series (ignoring the Tenchi in Tokyo disaster..) - which is probably why it surprised me that they were going to show a series that I really liked. Despite the misgivings you and I may have for DBZ, it gets watched and it gets watched a LOT. So it's sort of hard to point the finger on lack of quality for something that is so popular.
Theory A: Article never works because it's always slashdotted.
Theory B: Some of us avoid reading an article to avoid slashdotting a server.
Theory C: Some of us don't care about the topic and only want to read what others have to say. Then we randomly reply wherever we want, to stuff that was probably misinformed in the first place. If you want ontopic threads, post an ontopic summary.
Well putting them together explains the entire dot com deflation. Normally to make a buisness you need a geek AND a suit. In this model you get:
1) Make cool thing
2) Market, Advertize, sell
3) profit
Obviously this business can succeed. During the dot com era you got the other mix:
1) ???
2) ???
3) profit(?)
for some reason this doesn't work =P
I play that game all the time, the graphics suck! And when you level, your UID goes down. Who came up with that system anyway? =P
Good, then maybe some hacker will get confused and intercept my Adelphia cable TV hookup and inject some decent fucking cable programming for a change!
Without seeing my fortune when I log in, that takes away the entire reason for showing up!
Err.. paycheck, okay - that takes away the OTHER reason for going to work dammit!
Try using them both for a while. Using Mozilla is starting to get a little heartbreaking for me. I finally downloaded Phoenix yesterday after Mozilla slowed to a crawl. Each download would spike a 99% cpu usage, and memory usage for Mozilla got up to around 270Mb.
This is on win2k so your milage may vary. I'm fairly happy with Mozilla on Linux so I haven't had any reason to switch.
Sort of reminds me of the place I work.
A week after I was hired the computer with the sales database died. I'm the computer guy, so I'm supposed to fix it. I was a bit surprised at what I found (keep in mind this information is supposed to be fairly important information to the company).
The computer had around 256 megs of ram. Was a database server (for sales info) that around 3-4 people were connected to at any given time. Was running WINDOWS 98 using striped IDE hard drives. Among other things that this machine was used for at any given time was graphic editing in Corel Draw (wonderfully stable too I might add), and crash prone MS Office... as well as every God awful freeware screen saver ever found, and many other useless stuff that most people didn't even know what they were supposed to do. Apparently the machine crashed at least 3 times a day, and no one thought there was anything wrong with this.
So one drive dies, and surprise the backup is done on a jazz drive that never worked right. Apparently the girl who used the computer never really read that error message regarding the Jazz drive every morning when she came in. So we had a wonderfully redundant backup with a different Jazz disk for each day of the week with nothing but garbage on all of them.
When I actually put all the pieces of the puzzle together, I just started laughing at how ridiculous the setup was.
no problem, just have a station on with nothing but talk radio. Might give a chatty cab driver more reason to talk to the passengers too.
Woz was SORT of okay? I mean the guy is brilliant, yet very humble. If it weren't for him, there would be no Apple today, yet he still gets paid around $50k a year. If you read about things that Woz has done, like giving his stocks away to other apple empoyees who missed out on the IPO, and teaching computer classes for poor kids you start to realize that Woz is probably a much better guy than most of us (no "sort of" about it).
Actually I'd really like to ride on a zepplin.
Think luxury cruise, but in the air.
BSD: Still dying, still not dead :)
Exactly my thoughts.
My boss offered to give me a cell phone (me being the resident "computer guy"). After watching the head of maitenance for half a day with his cell phone (everyone calling with every problem ever 5 minutes) I said no thanks. Then again I'm biased because I don't like cell phones in the first place. It seems more and more like people are never "alone". I don't want phone calls when I'm driving (when I blast music so loud I doubt I'd hear it ring anyway), I don't want calls when I'm on a walk, I don't want calls when I'm eating, or out doing something. I could turn off the ringer, but then again I'd just never have it on at all if that were the case. Most of the time I'd just like my time to MYSELF.
computer: neo... go BACK to sleep
If it makes you feel any better, I don't think OpenOffice.org has anything to do with this and is still bloated all on its own. It looks like Timothy misread OpenSource.org to be OpenOffice.org.
That's me you bastard! I get all your junk mail now!
And I do NOT have a funny voice!