I'll conceed your point that violent acts change us, however I take issue with how you make that point. You say Muslims did these acts, not radical Muslims. This implys that all Muslims are responsible and condone these terrible acts. Here you are dead wrong, radical Muslims are a very small percentage of the Muslim population thankfully. We would stand no chance agains 1.3 Billion (1) determined attackers.
So yes acts of terror change us, but only as much as we let them change us. In 2005 14,493 people died in terrorist attacks (2) while 43,443 died in traffic accidents (3). So why are we so worried about terrorism when we are more likely to be killed by a jack-hole talking on a cellphone? We are letting a relativly minor problem get blowen way out of proportion.
I don't think most people here are denying that terrorism is a Bad Thing (TM) but that they take issue with how it is being used as an excuse to take away our cival liberties. Sure it probably wasn't the smartest thing to do but a goverment official saying your right to free speach end is scary and wrong. Its not like he was claming that carying a knife or some banned object was protected by free speach. He made a harmless critasism and was punished for it, that shouldn't happen.
(edit: Ah thank goodness for reasonable mods. In the time it took me to write this the parent went from 4 Insightfull to 0 Troll, Thank you.)
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I deliberately put misspellings and grammatical errors in my posts so I know who the dumb people are who respond to criticize my spelling, etc.
Tis grievous black news this most sacred of days to pirates round the globe: Talk Like a Pirate Day. Arrrr, it does bring a tear to my eye. Pas me grog and this one be fer ye, pirate party.
The article title is just begging for a bad pick-up line.
"Hey baby, my Wii is region free; you can use it anywhere" "My Wii's good all over the world honey." "It's o.k. baby, my Wii is region free now. I got that cleared up last week"
God damn, a press release about chips? Nintendo must really be reaching here. I mean I love Cape Cod chips just as much as the next dude but you don't see me doing a press release every time I buy some.
They must be British, but I don't see any reference to any fish acquisitions.
It exists (sotra), behold the OQO! Its a little brick with a screen and keyboard that you can dock and use as a full PC. Not quite what you asked for but close.
Damn, this story got my hopes up. I thought someone had modded FF so it's rendering engine would pass the ACID 2 test. It is a shame its just some hyped up browser.
I use Wildfire (the server from jive) for this exact same thing. However I wasn't a big fan of the client (Spark). I wanted a native windows app because we have some older computers (sorry java fans). So I deployed Pandion and my users love it.
But I would highly recomend Wildfire, I love it and its easy to set up and administer. I put together a server on a Win2k3 box in an afternoon.
"I wondered what's to prevent some nut using a garage door opener from pushing the right buttons to make your airplane fall apart," said Harrison. "But everything is locked down with codes, and the radio signals are scrambled, so this is fully secured against hackers."
Because no one ever thought to use codes and scrambled radio signals to prevent those pesky hackers from getting in.
[cue entire security comunity slapping their forheads]
Automatic Bolts: Secure against nuts with garage door openers (and probably not much else).
You totaly didn't mention the great multiplayer co-op game that you have to play to normaly get one of these babies. I hear it has a high replay value but can become quite expensive after awhile.
Get "Katamari Damacy", and "We 3 Katamari". They are both really fun and have great music. The first one has a better story and intro and the second one has the co-op play you are looking for. So if you are in a pinch just get the second one, but if you can splurge a bit get them both. (:
After college I did a year long stint as a sys/net admin a small upstate New York school district. It was really my first time being a full time admin and man was it crazy. It was a small underfunded school district so everything was done on a shoe string. It was only two buildings with about 500 computers but when I got there it was still a hubbed network [shudder].
However its really not that much different from working anywhere else. There might be a little bit more bureaucracy because its a public institution but that's about it. Computer networks are computer networks where ever you go. Some school IT offices get sucked into teaching computer courses (or in my high schools case the IT department came out of the computer classes). But most of the time I got to avoid dealing with the students thankfully.
It was a rather steady flow of work. There might have been a little increase in workload around grading time but that mostly was other people's problems. My biggest source of trouble was from poorly written educational software. That stuff sucks big time. I think its written by educators who become programmers.
Sorry I don't have anything really cool to write about, but its really just like other jobs. At least as long as you don't sweat the bull-shit.
Its a fish fossil. You see, when God created the earth 3,000 years ago he had some stuff left over, so he just thew it in orbit around other planets, figuring no one would ever find it.
Earlier this week I read an article on the Debian Weekly News, about a Debian box running on 3 Watts, and it reminded me of a project that I was asked to put on the shelf some time ago. The gist of the article linked to by the DWN was that Alex Perry got to wondering how much power his Linksys switch was sucking down whilst running 24/7, and found that his Manga, an ARM based router box, not only consumed less power but was able to run full blown Debian to boot. His point was "If I am going to pay to have a switch run 24/7, I might as well have the switch be a useful server as well." Following his article the PepLink community promptly got X11 working on the Manga and Alex's website was updated with the screen shots, which I might add are quite amusing.
While I do sympathize with the original thrust of the article, I must say that the Manga's ARM is a rather diminutive processor for a desktop machine these days. So my question is why would you run a Manga as a desktop to get down to the 3 Watt mark when for just a few more Watts you can run a box with a G4 processor? Yes, I am talking about that little machine that all of my geek friends (me included) seem to be drooling over as of late. The Mac Mini!
Several months ago I was in need of finding a small but powerful computer that could be run for a long period of time on batteries and not be a burden to carry. I was looking at several embedded options from places like kontron and mini-box, when I saw an article on the Mac Mini. Looking at the limited specs for the Mac Mini on Apple's website I began to suspect that if I removed the cdrom drive I would be able to fit a "lithium-ion polymer" battery pack inside the vacated space. I say that I suspected this because Apple is lousy about posting specs about internals and stuff that your Grandparents wouldn't normally ask about. So I ran down to the local Apple store with my trusty calipers and had one of their technicians go into the back and measure the dimensions of the cdrom drive for me. The numbers that he gave me made my day, the batteries would fit! Now about power specs. Apple of course did not have the DC power specs online, and nobody I talked to at the Apple store or on the support line could get them for me. In an act of desperation I resorted to sending email to combinations of addresses like steve_at_apple.com sjobs_at_apple.com, steve.jobs_at_apple.com, etc asking for the specs. Funny enough I got a reply (No, not from Steve Jobs) from an Engineer who was quite helpful. It looked like the Mac could do it, so I decided to get one and hack on it. The Mac was dirt cheap compared to the embedded systems so it was a very limited risk approach to proceeding on the project.
I ordered the Mac, a 4GB Hitachi Microdrive, and a laptop-IDE to CF adapter. I also talked to Mike (Dr. Zhang) at SKC PowerTech, Inc, and he was kind enough to send me some batteries for evaluation. The batteries were a new design and were not yet in production, so there was a bit of a lead time on those, but at the end of two days I had the rest of the necessities at hand. First things first, I measured the out of the box power draw of the Mac Mini, which turned out to be only 12 Watts! This was better than the specs I was given. I then proceeded to remove the hard disk and replace it with the Microdrive-CF adapter setup. Then I got me a Debian (Sarge) disk *GRIN*. This was the first time I had touched a Mac, and I was pleased to find that the Debian install on the Mac was smooth and painless. After getting the system up and running, I did some stress testing on it. The testing involved running simultaneous FFT routines (like 30 of them) on 80MB data files. The system was so heavily loaded that it took about 15 minutes to log into the machine from another terminal, and another 15 minutes to get to the bash prompt. During this utter thrashing of the system the highest the power usage spiked to was 20 Watts, but it stayed around 14
Have people beta test commercial software for free... BRILLIANT!!!!! Distribute said beta anti-spyware software with windows updates.... BRILLIANT!!!!! Hook clueless users on our anti-spyware software... BRILLIANT!!!! Sell the software as a subscription.... BRILLIANT!!!!! Sell advertising company's the ability to have us take their software out of our spyware definitions.... BRILLIANT!!!!
Have people beta test commercial software for free... BRILLIANT!!!!! Distribute said beta anti-spyware software with windows updates.... BRILLIANT!!!!! Hook clueless users on our anti-spyware software... BRILLIANT!!!! Sell the software as a subscription.... BRILLIANT!!!!! Sell advertising company's the ability to have us take their software out of our spyware definitions.... BRILLIANT!!!!
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I hear that Power Point is so feared because of its large store of ammunition, it has plenty of bullets.
Thanks folks I'll be here all week, and try the fish.
I'll conceed your point that violent acts change us, however I take issue with how you make that point. You say Muslims did these acts, not radical Muslims. This implys that all Muslims are responsible and condone these terrible acts. Here you are dead wrong, radical Muslims are a very small percentage of the Muslim population thankfully. We would stand no chance agains 1.3 Billion (1) determined attackers.
So yes acts of terror change us, but only as much as we let them change us. In 2005 14,493 people died in terrorist attacks (2) while 43,443 died in traffic accidents (3). So why are we so worried about terrorism when we are more likely to be killed by a jack-hole talking on a cellphone? We are letting a relativly minor problem get blowen way out of proportion.
I don't think most people here are denying that terrorism is a Bad Thing (TM) but that they take issue with how it is being used as an excuse to take away our cival liberties. Sure it probably wasn't the smartest thing to do but a goverment official saying your right to free speach end is scary and wrong. Its not like he was claming that carying a knife or some banned object was protected by free speach. He made a harmless critasism and was punished for it, that shouldn't happen.
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(edit: Ah thank goodness for reasonable mods. In the time it took me to write this the parent went from 4 Insightfull to 0 Troll, Thank you.) -- I deliberately put misspellings and grammatical errors in my posts so I know who the dumb people are who respond to criticize my spelling, etc.2: Page 4, Table I
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Tis grievous black news this most sacred of days to pirates round the globe: Talk Like a Pirate Day. Arrrr, it does bring a tear to my eye. Pas me grog and this one be fer ye, pirate party.
The article title is just begging for a bad pick-up line.
"Hey baby, my Wii is region free; you can use it anywhere"
"My Wii's good all over the world honey."
"It's o.k. baby, my Wii is region free now. I got that cleared up last week"
God damn, a press release about chips? Nintendo must really be reaching here. I mean I love Cape Cod chips just as much as the next dude but you don't see me doing a press release every time I buy some.
They must be British, but I don't see any reference to any fish acquisitions.
Just give me back my fucking stapler and everything will be ok. I swear one of these days I'm going burn this mutha' to the ground.
It exists (sotra), behold the OQO! Its a little brick with a screen and keyboard that you can dock and use as a full PC. Not quite what you asked for but close.
Damn, this story got my hopes up. I thought someone had modded FF so it's rendering engine would pass the ACID 2 test. It is a shame its just some hyped up browser.
I use Wildfire (the server from jive) for this exact same thing. However I wasn't a big fan of the client (Spark). I wanted a native windows app because we have some older computers (sorry java fans). So I deployed Pandion and my users love it.
But I would highly recomend Wildfire, I love it and its easy to set up and administer. I put together a server on a Win2k3 box in an afternoon.
Don't worry:
"I wondered what's to prevent some nut using a garage door opener from pushing the right buttons to make your airplane fall apart," said Harrison. "But everything is locked down with codes, and the radio signals are scrambled, so this is fully secured against hackers."
Because no one ever thought to use codes and scrambled radio signals to prevent those pesky hackers from getting in.
[cue entire security comunity slapping their forheads]
Automatic Bolts: Secure against nuts with garage door openers (and probably not much else).
You totaly didn't mention the great multiplayer co-op game that you have to play to normaly get one of these babies. I hear it has a high replay value but can become quite expensive after awhile.
Get "Katamari Damacy", and "We 3 Katamari". They are both really fun and have great music. The first one has a better story and intro and the second one has the co-op play you are looking for. So if you are in a pinch just get the second one, but if you can splurge a bit get them both. (:
After college I did a year long stint as a sys/net admin a small upstate New York school district. It was really my first time being a full time admin and man was it crazy. It was a small underfunded school district so everything was done on a shoe string. It was only two buildings with about 500 computers but when I got there it was still a hubbed network [shudder].
However its really not that much different from working anywhere else. There might be a little bit more bureaucracy because its a public institution but that's about it. Computer networks are computer networks where ever you go. Some school IT offices get sucked into teaching computer courses (or in my high schools case the IT department came out of the computer classes). But most of the time I got to avoid dealing with the students thankfully.
It was a rather steady flow of work. There might have been a little increase in workload around grading time but that mostly was other people's problems. My biggest source of trouble was from poorly written educational software. That stuff sucks big time. I think its written by educators who become programmers.
Sorry I don't have anything really cool to write about, but its really just like other jobs. At least as long as you don't sweat the bull-shit.
Your aunt got you a gotse poster for Christmas? You have bigger things to worry about then cops putting cameras in your house.
Swearing online?! That never fucking happens.
I think I speak for all of us when I say WTF?!
Its a fish fossil. You see, when God created the earth 3,000 years ago he had some stuff left over, so he just thew it in orbit around other planets, figuring no one would ever find it.
Bongos.
"1845 - The rubber band is invented"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_17
YES!
Mighty Mouse: Now with 50% more breast look and feel.
So how much did they pay you for your "review"?
Mac Mini Surgery
I had an itch to scratch so here it is...
Earlier this week I read an article on the Debian Weekly News, about a Debian box running on 3 Watts, and it reminded me of a project that I was asked to put on the shelf some time ago. The gist of the article linked to by the DWN was that Alex Perry got to wondering how much power his Linksys switch was sucking down whilst running 24/7, and found that his Manga, an ARM based router box, not only consumed less power but was able to run full blown Debian to boot. His point was "If I am going to pay to have a switch run 24/7, I might as well have the switch be a useful server as well." Following his article the PepLink community promptly got X11 working on the Manga and Alex's website was updated with the screen shots, which I might add are quite amusing.
While I do sympathize with the original thrust of the article, I must say that the Manga's ARM is a rather diminutive processor for a desktop machine these days. So my question is why would you run a Manga as a desktop to get down to the 3 Watt mark when for just a few more Watts you can run a box with a G4 processor? Yes, I am talking about that little machine that all of my geek friends (me included) seem to be drooling over as of late. The Mac Mini!
Several months ago I was in need of finding a small but powerful computer that could be run for a long period of time on batteries and not be a burden to carry. I was looking at several embedded options from places like kontron and mini-box, when I saw an article on the Mac Mini. Looking at the limited specs for the Mac Mini on Apple's website I began to suspect that if I removed the cdrom drive I would be able to fit a "lithium-ion polymer" battery pack inside the vacated space. I say that I suspected this because Apple is lousy about posting specs about internals and stuff that your Grandparents wouldn't normally ask about. So I ran down to the local Apple store with my trusty calipers and had one of their technicians go into the back and measure the dimensions of the cdrom drive for me. The numbers that he gave me made my day, the batteries would fit! Now about power specs. Apple of course did not have the DC power specs online, and nobody I talked to at the Apple store or on the support line could get them for me. In an act of desperation I resorted to sending email to combinations of addresses like steve_at_apple.com sjobs_at_apple.com, steve.jobs_at_apple.com, etc asking for the specs. Funny enough I got a reply (No, not from Steve Jobs) from an Engineer who was quite helpful. It looked like the Mac could do it, so I decided to get one and hack on it. The Mac was dirt cheap compared to the embedded systems so it was a very limited risk approach to proceeding on the project.
I ordered the Mac, a 4GB Hitachi Microdrive, and a laptop-IDE to CF adapter. I also talked to Mike (Dr. Zhang) at SKC PowerTech, Inc, and he was kind enough to send me some batteries for evaluation. The batteries were a new design and were not yet in production, so there was a bit of a lead time on those, but at the end of two days I had the rest of the necessities at hand. First things first, I measured the out of the box power draw of the Mac Mini, which turned out to be only 12 Watts! This was better than the specs I was given. I then proceeded to remove the hard disk and replace it with the Microdrive-CF adapter setup. Then I got me a Debian (Sarge) disk *GRIN*. This was the first time I had touched a Mac, and I was pleased to find that the Debian install on the Mac was smooth and painless. After getting the system up and running, I did some stress testing on it. The testing involved running simultaneous FFT routines (like 30 of them) on 80MB data files. The system was so heavily loaded that it took about 15 minutes to log into the machine from another terminal, and another 15 minutes to get to the bash prompt. During this utter thrashing of the system the highest the power usage spiked to was 20 Watts, but it stayed around 14
Have people beta test commercial software for free... BRILLIANT!!!!!
Distribute said beta anti-spyware software with windows updates.... BRILLIANT!!!!!
Hook clueless users on our anti-spyware software... BRILLIANT!!!!
Sell the software as a subscription.... BRILLIANT!!!!!
Sell advertising company's the ability to have us take their software out of our spyware definitions.... BRILLIANT!!!!
with apologies to Guinness
Have people beta test commercial software for free... BRILLIANT!!!!!
Distribute said beta anti-spyware software with windows updates.... BRILLIANT!!!!!
Hook clueless users on our anti-spyware software... BRILLIANT!!!!
Sell the software as a subscription.... BRILLIANT!!!!!
Sell advertising company's the ability to have us take their software out of our spyware definitions.... BRILLIANT!!!!
with apologies to Guinness
"For years, the Royal Family kept a large herd of pigs at Windsor castle in England." pork.co.nz
"...so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm." -Snatch
Look out for the Royal Family...