Well thats good news, cause I eat quite a lot of it.
I guess it depends on exactly what you eat though.. you could go for something which is dry chicken and rice and vegetables.. or at the other end of the scale you could have the stuff which surely can't be good for you..
I had a meal (and I forget what it was called) and it was similar to a Kurma (made with fresh cream), except this was also swimming in Ghee, which is indian clarified butter.. so cream and butter.. and lots of it. I could actually feel my heart twitching as I ate it! I actually just picked the chicken out of the sauce and ate it with rice as I was so worried about the damage...:)
If you are on your 3rd bypass, i'd say you've had too many curries already;)
One thing to avoid...
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You might have seen people selling on eBay a miracle chip which can unleash around 20BHP from your engine, and yet this wonder chip only costs like $5.
Its basically a resistor you are buying, and you are expected to solder it into your ECU, tricking the car into thinking its running in cold start mode the whole time.. so more fuel is injected into the engine hence making it a little more powerful.
But obviously you don't want to be doing it.. if you are going to get your car chipped do it at a garage who run your car on a rolling road and work out a custom map for you. $500 or so for a rechip would be nothing compared to the damage that one of those $5 resistors would do over time.
If its anything like the sound of the Silicon Graphics Indy 'BIOS' beep (imagine a short 2 second synth style riff from the 80's, but modified to fit a game show and you are kinda close), then it'll be one of those cool for the first few times type sounds - then it gets annoying - and then a few weeks on, you kinda hide under your desk every time you power the machine up!:)
Well as standard we have 5 'terrestrial' channels, and we are also now entitled to pick up an addition 15 or so channels over a digital TV system called freeview.
To pick up freeview all you need to do is go pick up a box from the local electrical / hi-fi kinda places - they cost anywhere from $70 - $200 depending on the brand name you want but they all do the same kind of thing.
As for quality of TV its hard to say.. the one advantage is that the BBC channels (which the licensing cost goes towards) have no commercials.. i'm sure thats something that most American TV viewers are not used to, but the only commercials you get on the BBC channels are quick adverts for programmes they will be having in the future. But sometimes it can just be credits from one show, and then a guy saying "And now on BBC1, the 6 o clock news with Joe Bloggs" and off you go into the next show.
I mean I understand what you are saying, but if you were given the choice to upgrade that old copy of Windows 95 to say Windows 98 or better (I use that term loosely) for FREE (and assuming it still ran on the crappy hardware from years ago) then I am sure you would jump at the chance.
Thats kinda why I find it more surprising that people use the older versions of the kernel, considering its not costing you more than a few minutes time to download the latest tarball from your local mirror, and setup a new kernel!
I read a thread on another site about this and a bunch of people said they had checked over SCO's DNS and said that the A records were removed, seeing as they were expecting a deluge anyway, they might as well do a bit of damage limitation.
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If you query their DNS servers, you'll see that they have removed the A records to their site.
A few guys just spent the morning setting up the systems to defend against this latest virus. Not gonna be caught with our trousers down like we were with Blaster and then Welchia!!
Ok so generally the job sounds awful, but sent home because the work environment hit 32 centigrade?
For some reason the office we work in is perpetually ignored when it comes to aircon.. and in the summer, even with the windows WIDE open and the door open to encourage a draught we are usually a pretty constant 36 centigrade.
Its awful, really it is. But health and safety laws state a minimum temperature for a working environment but no maximum temperature. Go figure.
Had never seen MP3 before, had just downloaded Winamp (been using it ever since) - this was back in something like 1998.
Downloaded the MP3 off an FTP server when I was at college, and took the file home to my Pentium P90 zip compressed and spanned across a few floppy disks.
I didn't know it would explode into what it has become now though..
.. Microsoft is currently hard at work modifying the WMA standard, so that it will NOT function correctly on anything other than the current version of Windows Media Player.
I only work for a college, so nothing hugely drastic has ever happened.
But two classics do spring to mind - but whilst I Was there to witness them, neither of them were my fault.
First one was me teaching a work collegue a bit about Linux. He'd been using it on and off for a few months and was starting to get quite comfortable and happy using it. One of the things he had learned was how to map Novell drives which was pretty handy as that was where most of our work and stuff was stored. But one day he made the fatal mistake of trying to remove a mountpoint by using rm -Rf - the mountpoint just happened to the SYS volume on one of the core servers.
I remeber the network just stopping running, and someone coming in from the server room with a serious look of concern on his face saying "MARS is asking for its name! It won't boot up properly!" - thats when the cold sweat suddenly starts to break out:)
Second story was.. a few of us were trying to rerack some gear in the server room, one of the items was a Cisco Callmanager. Problem was we couldn't take it offline but all we needed to do was nudge it up the rack a few U's. All going great until the guy who was trying to hold it whilst it was unbolted slipped and it just crashed to the floor from about 4ft up. It was almost like watching a Clown Car as the top lid just sprang open and bits of the chassis buckled. We all panicked and ran out of the room with the CallManager.. took it to the office to perform some corrective surgery (bending the brackets back into place, reseating stuff) and then went and plugged it back in.
Glad to say it worked, and still does a year on.. not funny at the time tho:)
For me, the weirdest presents this year came in the form of clothes from my grandma that I wouldn't actually be embarassed to wear!!
A really smart shirt from Next (clothes store in the UK, not the old UNIX company!), and a silk tie from tie rack - both of which were really smart, and totally suitable to wear to work.
Well.. you could do the 'Free Darl!' on the front.
And have something like 'Not Really!' on the back, or have something like 'Because we all want a turn at kicking his ass' underneath the 'Free Darl' bit:D
I think thats basically what I thought when I read the story.
It bugs the shit out of me that Linux is ridiculed, criticised, 'out performed', 'out priced', (I dont agree with that btw, just using those comments as examples) etc by Microsoft & their propaganda machine.. yet at the end of the day, you get something stupid like 'this is just business', or in this case, using Linux as an example of how they should be doing something.
Ah well.. Linux is obviously doing something right. Just keep your eyes on the prize guys:)
When I read about the December EOL for RH7.x (currently in use on our two large DNS & DHCP boxes) I was a bit miffed - some slightly more advanced notification would have been nice through the usual Red Hat channels.
But the information on educational discounts for RHEL Server (I forget which edition) has helped ease that pain a little. Its actually cheaper than the usual yearly subscription to the RHN, and of course it has a longer lifespan. And conveniently, the description issued for the ideal kind of role for the server edition they were releasing under an academic discount was almost exactly all those systems were used for.
I'll be filling out the purchase order, and resuming the usual business with Red Hat. Slackware nearly got in (especially now that it has swaret), but this has turned the decision back around:)
I think the word you are looking for is asshole, not card.
McBride started off as funny, but the fact this has already gone on long enough, and Darl McBride is still sitting there trying to ruin open source and all it stands for, has just really started to wear thin with me.
I can't wait for IBM's lawyers to do him over - "Do you hear me talking hillbilly boy?!";)
Oh god.. most hilarious post I have read all day. Though probably for all the wrong reasons.
You make out like the parents management are keeping his coders locked under their desks in cages, and only letting them out once a week so they can hose down the cage and put some fresh newspaper in.
I think he means like customer facing social events, such as negotiating contracts etc - not going down to the local bar for a few frames of pool and a jug of beer!!
I too can back this up.. I have my Windows formatted 3G 20GB iPod configured so that it doesn't sync playlists every time its connected.
I can take it to my home machine (Windows XP x86) and use copy music to it / organise my lists, and then take it to work and plug it into my Powermac G4 and do the same stuff - both using iTunes, and both work in exactly the same way. It is totally painless. Though I could do with a spare connector cable as I have to carry that around with me to.
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Well thats good news, cause I eat quite a lot of it.
:)
I guess it depends on exactly what you eat though.. you could go for something which is dry chicken and rice and vegetables.. or at the other end of the scale you could have the stuff which surely can't be good for you..
I had a meal (and I forget what it was called) and it was similar to a Kurma (made with fresh cream), except this was also swimming in Ghee, which is indian clarified butter.. so cream and butter.. and lots of it. I could actually feel my heart twitching as I ate it! I actually just picked the chicken out of the sauce and ate it with rice as I was so worried about the damage...
If you are on your 3rd bypass, i'd say you've had too many curries already ;)
You might have seen people selling on eBay a miracle chip which can unleash around 20BHP from your engine, and yet this wonder chip only costs like $5.
Its basically a resistor you are buying, and you are expected to solder it into your ECU, tricking the car into thinking its running in cold start mode the whole time.. so more fuel is injected into the engine hence making it a little more powerful.
But obviously you don't want to be doing it.. if you are going to get your car chipped do it at a garage who run your car on a rolling road and work out a custom map for you. $500 or so for a rechip would be nothing compared to the damage that one of those $5 resistors would do over time.
If its anything like the sound of the Silicon Graphics Indy 'BIOS' beep (imagine a short 2 second synth style riff from the 80's, but modified to fit a game show and you are kinda close), then it'll be one of those cool for the first few times type sounds - then it gets annoying - and then a few weeks on, you kinda hide under your desk every time you power the machine up! :)
Well as standard we have 5 'terrestrial' channels, and we are also now entitled to pick up an addition 15 or so channels over a digital TV system called freeview.
:)
To pick up freeview all you need to do is go pick up a box from the local electrical / hi-fi kinda places - they cost anywhere from $70 - $200 depending on the brand name you want but they all do the same kind of thing.
As for quality of TV its hard to say.. the one advantage is that the BBC channels (which the licensing cost goes towards) have no commercials.. i'm sure thats something that most American TV viewers are not used to, but the only commercials you get on the BBC channels are quick adverts for programmes they will be having in the future. But sometimes it can just be credits from one show, and then a guy saying "And now on BBC1, the 6 o clock news with Joe Bloggs" and off you go into the next show.
So it depends on how you look at it I guess
Well unless you work in a hospital or nuclear facility, your lack of computer skills are not going to endanger peoples lives.
I think a driving license, and the ability to operate a computer are two huuuugely different things imho.
Though that is why they have things (in the UK at least) like CLAIT and the ECDL (which coincidentally means European Computer Driving License).
I think there is a difference however.
I mean I understand what you are saying, but if you were given the choice to upgrade that old copy of Windows 95 to say Windows 98 or better (I use that term loosely) for FREE (and assuming it still ran on the crappy hardware from years ago) then I am sure you would jump at the chance.
Thats kinda why I find it more surprising that people use the older versions of the kernel, considering its not costing you more than a few minutes time to download the latest tarball from your local mirror, and setup a new kernel!
Well if they haven't then I am sorry!
I read a thread on another site about this and a bunch of people said they had checked over SCO's DNS and said that the A records were removed, seeing as they were expecting a deluge anyway, they might as well do a bit of damage limitation.
If you query their DNS servers, you'll see that they have removed the A records to their site.
So the traffic just won't get to them anyway..
I hear you buddy..
A few guys just spent the morning setting up the systems to defend against this latest virus. Not gonna be caught with our trousers down like we were with Blaster and then Welchia!!
Not trying to be stupid here, but isn't Darth Vader just dutch (or something similar) for Dark Father?
:)
Bit of an obvious name if you know the language I suppose!
Ok so generally the job sounds awful, but sent home because the work environment hit 32 centigrade?
For some reason the office we work in is perpetually ignored when it comes to aircon.. and in the summer, even with the windows WIDE open and the door open to encourage a draught we are usually a pretty constant 36 centigrade.
Its awful, really it is. But health and safety laws state a minimum temperature for a working environment but no maximum temperature. Go figure.
Spice Girls - Spice Up Your Life!!
Had never seen MP3 before, had just downloaded Winamp (been using it ever since) - this was back in something like 1998.
Downloaded the MP3 off an FTP server when I was at college, and took the file home to my Pentium P90 zip compressed and spanned across a few floppy disks.
I didn't know it would explode into what it has become now though..
.. Microsoft is currently hard at work modifying the WMA standard, so that it will NOT function correctly on anything other than the current version of Windows Media Player.
:)
Probably
I only work for a college, so nothing hugely drastic has ever happened.
:)
:)
But two classics do spring to mind - but whilst I Was there to witness them, neither of them were my fault.
First one was me teaching a work collegue a bit about Linux. He'd been using it on and off for a few months and was starting to get quite comfortable and happy using it. One of the things he had learned was how to map Novell drives which was pretty handy as that was where most of our work and stuff was stored. But one day he made the fatal mistake of trying to remove a mountpoint by using rm -Rf - the mountpoint just happened to the SYS volume on one of the core servers.
I remeber the network just stopping running, and someone coming in from the server room with a serious look of concern on his face saying "MARS is asking for its name! It won't boot up properly!" - thats when the cold sweat suddenly starts to break out
Second story was.. a few of us were trying to rerack some gear in the server room, one of the items was a Cisco Callmanager. Problem was we couldn't take it offline but all we needed to do was nudge it up the rack a few U's. All going great until the guy who was trying to hold it whilst it was unbolted slipped and it just crashed to the floor from about 4ft up. It was almost like watching a Clown Car as the top lid just sprang open and bits of the chassis buckled. We all panicked and ran out of the room with the CallManager.. took it to the office to perform some corrective surgery (bending the brackets back into place, reseating stuff) and then went and plugged it back in.
Glad to say it worked, and still does a year on.. not funny at the time tho
Crappy songs?
;)
Its what you make of it pal.. its not like they preload MP3 players like the iPod with Britney Spears & Justin Timberlake records or something!
Unless of course you are just confirming that your own taste in music is 'crappy'
And I don't see how its encouraging the RIAA to be quite honest..
For me, the weirdest presents this year came in the form of clothes from my grandma that I wouldn't actually be embarassed to wear!!
:)
A really smart shirt from Next (clothes store in the UK, not the old UNIX company!), and a silk tie from tie rack - both of which were really smart, and totally suitable to wear to work.
I was stunned!
Well.. you could do the 'Free Darl!' on the front.
:D
And have something like 'Not Really!' on the back, or have something like 'Because we all want a turn at kicking his ass' underneath the 'Free Darl' bit
I think thats basically what I thought when I read the story.
:)
It bugs the shit out of me that Linux is ridiculed, criticised, 'out performed', 'out priced', (I dont agree with that btw, just using those comments as examples) etc by Microsoft & their propaganda machine.. yet at the end of the day, you get something stupid like 'this is just business', or in this case, using Linux as an example of how they should be doing something.
Ah well.. Linux is obviously doing something right. Just keep your eyes on the prize guys
Anyone remeber those from the movie Mystery Men? :-)
Shoveler: A canned tornado, huh?
Heller: Totally non-lethal, but totally effective.
That I work for an educational establishment.
:)
When I read about the December EOL for RH7.x (currently in use on our two large DNS & DHCP boxes) I was a bit miffed - some slightly more advanced notification would have been nice through the usual Red Hat channels.
But the information on educational discounts for RHEL Server (I forget which edition) has helped ease that pain a little. Its actually cheaper than the usual yearly subscription to the RHN, and of course it has a longer lifespan. And conveniently, the description issued for the ideal kind of role for the server edition they were releasing under an academic discount was almost exactly all those systems were used for.
I'll be filling out the purchase order, and resuming the usual business with Red Hat. Slackware nearly got in (especially now that it has swaret), but this has turned the decision back around
You're such a card, McBride.
;)
I think the word you are looking for is asshole, not card.
McBride started off as funny, but the fact this has already gone on long enough, and Darl McBride is still sitting there trying to ruin open source and all it stands for, has just really started to wear thin with me.
I can't wait for IBM's lawyers to do him over - "Do you hear me talking hillbilly boy?!"
Quick.. get in there before the Patent Office awards patents for 'method for developing software' and 'paying people to develop software'.
;)
Oh, sarcasm btw
Oh god.. most hilarious post I have read all day. Though probably for all the wrong reasons.
You make out like the parents management are keeping his coders locked under their desks in cages, and only letting them out once a week so they can hose down the cage and put some fresh newspaper in.
I think he means like customer facing social events, such as negotiating contracts etc - not going down to the local bar for a few frames of pool and a jug of beer!!
I too can back this up.. I have my Windows formatted 3G 20GB iPod configured so that it doesn't sync playlists every time its connected.
I can take it to my home machine (Windows XP x86) and use copy music to it / organise my lists, and then take it to work and plug it into my Powermac G4 and do the same stuff - both using iTunes, and both work in exactly the same way. It is totally painless. Though I could do with a spare connector cable as I have to carry that around with me to.