Well, except that XP can't handle having the motherboard changed out from under it, so you have to do a repair and re-enter your serial# anyway, along with the joy of redownloading all the patches released. Yea, that sounds like fun.
Maybe it depends on the number of differences between boards, but I replaced one AMD 760MPX-based board (an MSI K7D Master) with another (a Tyan Tiger MPX) and didn't have to reinstall WinXP. I went into the swap thinking that I'd need to reinstall, but for once WinXP surprised me in a good way. It sounds like your change was a bit more drastic than mine (from a VIA chipset to an nVidia chipset)...neither WinXP nor Win2K would be happy with such a swap. (Win98 would've had no problem with it...let it redetect everything and get on with life.)
The Ka-52 has six blades (three on each of two top-mounted rotors, counter-rotating), and only one of the explosive bolt sets needs to fail to make the whole ejection proposition rather, shall we say, dicey.
It's not distilled, either. It's probably just the same water that goes into the making of soft drinks, but without the carbonation and flavorings. It's no doubt filtered or otherwise treated, but I would be surprised if they'd use such a relatively expensive process as distillation (it takes lots of energy to create steam from water, and it takes lots more energy to condense the steam back into water).
Actually we have McDonalds to thank...the lady wanted them to pay her medical bills. She only sued for millions when they refused.
They only refused because she was a total dumbass and klutz. Putting a somewhat fragile container full of hot liquid between your legs is just stupid. Put it in a cup holder...that's why they're there.
blackholes.us has a bunch of RBL lists that let you cut off incoming mail from whatever countries you want. I've found the China, Hong Kong, and Brazil lists particularly useful. (I also have incoming mail checked against relays.osirusoft.com and bl.spamcop.net...when I temporarily disabled those a few days ago, I must've gotten half-a-dozen "here's how to make your johnson bigger" messages in one hour. Normally, that crap doesn't get through.)
For maximum effectiveness, you need to direct your advertisements more carefully at the target market. If your callers are primarily nuetered dogs, you should consider playing to your customers promotional material for products such as:
Silicone prosthetic testicles
The scary part is that there actually is such a product on the market. From their page:
Neuticles allowing [sic] your pet to retain his natural look, self esteem and aids in the trauma associated with neutering.
Umm...yeah. Whatever. That sounds like the kind of thing the old biddy with the toy poodle/Chihuahua/Pomeranian/[insert annoying small-dog breed here] that never stops yapping would buy for the little beast.
But what the hell do you FIND on these menus that's useful?
It depends on the program...in Visual Studio, for instance, a couple of options that come up if you hit the menu key on a variable let you go to where that variable is declared or defined. Maybe there's a more direct keyboard shortcut that does the same thing, but it's difficult to keep up on every keyboard shortcut for every program (especially for something that's particular to one program).
I'm not claiming that the menu key is useful everywhere, but your claim that it's useful nowhere doesn't track with my experience. If you don't like it, nobody's forcing you to use it...there's usually more than one way to get something done, and which method someone prefers is likely to be determined by previous experience. (For instance, some people are under the impression that mouse gestures are the greatest thing since sliced bread. This page leads me to believe otherwise...why bother with remembering some squiggle to draw with a mouse to (for instance) change tabs when Ctrl-Tab does the same thing?)
In a similar vein...does ANYONE find that "context menu" key useful, the one to the right of the righthand windows key?
All the time...the less frequently you have to go to the mouse, the better.
The Model M I'm using now doesn't have the Windows or menu keys on it, but I use RemapKey to remap the right Alt & Ctrl keys (which would otherwise go unused).
Strangely enough, the Windows key is also useful on a Mac...it does the work of the Open-Apple key on an Apple keyboard (and Alt takes the place of Option). I have some ADB keyboards I could use...and one of them is connected to a Quadra 610. The beige G3 uses a PS/2-to-USB adapter to share the same Focus keyboard and Microsoft optical mouse that are used by my x86 boxen. I don't think the menu key is mapped to anything, though...having it serve as the Reset/Power key would be useful.
All ham is pork (ignoring turkey "ham" for the moment, since that's just a chunk of turkey flavored like smoked/cured ham), but not all pork is ham. A ham is a hind leg of a pig (or is cut from it). It's usually cured and smoked, but fresh ham isn't. Other cuts have other names (ribs, bacon, etc.).
2/3 of the voters in 2/3 of the states. That's what's required for an Amendment IIRC.
Nope...it's two-thirds of both houses of Congress, followed by three-fourths of the state legislatures. The process can also be started by two-thirds of the state legislatures calling for a constitutional convention, but we've not had one of those since the Constitution was put into effect.
Should 60 million people go to jail just so the RIAA can stay in business? I dont think so.
The law must be changed because the people want it changed. Thats how democracy works.
The RIAA's business model is outdated, but that is the most asinine argument for a change that I've ever heard. In case you're still going by what the government schools' "social studies" classes drilled into your head, the United States is not a democracy. It never has been and, God willing, never will be. Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for dinner...while it's great for the majority, it tends to walk all over the rights of minorities if left to its own devices.
Sending people to jail for downloading music when murderers and rapists are being set free as a result of overcrowding is wrong, but try to come up with something better than warmed-over communism if you want to see things change.
People keep posting about 'working hard', when, in fact, they should be 'working smart'. By that I mean:
Work long hours initially to set up automation.
Let automation do the work. --- this is the working smart part
Browse Slashdot and react when the blinkin' lights go off.
Profit.
At a previous job, we called that "professional laziness." After spending an hour (if that) going through the few things that we weren't able to completely automate, I'd spend a good bit of the extra time reading email and/or/.. We also did a fair amount of "network testing" that involved analysis tools with names like "Axis & Allies" and "Delta Force.":-)
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Rent: $1400/month
Moving out of the high-rent district would fix that. Buying is also cheaper than renting...the condo I'm in right now runs me ~$570 for everything--principal, taxes, PMI, HOA (that alone is $90/month), etc.
Food: $500/month
Making your own coffee every morning instead of blowing $3-$5 @ Starbucks would knock most of that out. I would be surprised if I'm spending more than $200 per month, and I'm still eating out more than I should (need to lose this spare tire:-| ).
Taxes: $1500/month
Uncle Sam does want an overly-large chunk of your money. Stop voting for Democrats and maybe taxes will return to somewhat sane levels.
Auto: $250/month (not counting repairs or payments)
For gas and insurance, that sounds about right.
No medical insurance
I've had that since I finished college.
No new clothes
T-shirts and shorts are cheap, and in the summer months they're all you need for any true geek job. If you can get to Comdex, you could more than likely score some T-shirts for free.
No family
OK, so I haven't bothered starting one yet and have no immediate plans to do so.
Whaddya get just out of college with a new degree? $40K a year? How long do you get to keep that job?
I started at $24k before I graduated (started when I still had one semester to go) and went to $40k after graduation. I'm still there a year and a half after graduation (about two years total), with frequent raises and a couple of bonuses. I'm doing the network and UI parts of video communication apps. (I also did the first version of the wavelet compression we're using, but that's been handed off to someone else who's better at making code run fast.) The first versions of these apps are for Win32, but Apple and SGI are interested in what our company is doing, so maybe I'll score a G5 to go next to the dual Athlon MP and get to learn coding for Mac OS X. (Nearly everything I know about Win32 coding I picked up on the job, having gotten nearly all the way through college working mostly with Linux and other UN*Xish systems.) I've also convinced the boss that HP Pavilions really aren't cut out for business use, so I build/configure the new computers that we need. I also keep the network running. With all of that stuff going on in a tech company that's been growing at a moderate pace for ~20 years, I think I'm in a fairly good position. It might not pay as much as the dot-commers were getting...but at least I have a job.:-)
What is the -...-? I can't remember it and googling doesnt help
According to this Morse code table, it means =. I guess it was in there as a space...though AFAIK a space in Morse is represented as just a pause between words (just as youwouldn'trunwordstogetherwhenyouspeakorwrite).
You will get more pay TV or people like Farscape fans offering to pay for the show in advance. Without ads watching all of your favourite shows is going to cost more.
The distribution technology is in place...if the cable company wanted to charge me $3-$5 per channel per month for ad-free TV, I'd sign up right now. Of the hundreds of channels available to me on digital cable, I think I watch maybe half-a-dozen regularly and another half-dozen occasionally. The rest don't get watched; some of them are even unflagged on my TiVo as "channels I watch" so their listings don't show up. The cost to me per month would be about the same as what I'm paying now (or maybe less). A decent chunk of each channel's monthly cost would go straight to the network...multiply that by a few million for the less-viewed channels (or tens of millions for the more popular channels) and I'd think they'd have enough money to operate without ads.
I have a sister-in-law who actually got upset when I tried to switch stations to avoid ads.
My parents find it amusing when I'm visiting them and I hit Mute on their TV when ads come up. They don't complain, but they don't bother muting ads themselves unless they're really annoying. When they start talking about some ad they'd seen that they found funny, I almost never know WTF they're talking about.
I allready migrated my domain server to Windows XP. I can recommend it.
Whatever you say, troll.
To the clueless moderator who marked this reply as flamebait:
Windows XP [Home|Professional] is a desktop/workstation OS. It is not a server OS. Unlike WinNT and Win2K, there was never a server version of WinXP. It will not function as a domain controller. (Hell, WinXP Home won't even log into a domain.) There's Windows Server 2003 now, but it's not XP-anything.
for one of these for some time now. I would like to put it with wifi in the back of my car and run a custom (read: linux) mp3 server. Now all I need to tack down is the touch screen LCD interface for it (seriously).
I think a better (or at least more clever) option would be to use Bluetooth to connect a Palm to it, and use that as the display. Some models (like the Tungsten T) have Bluetooth built in, the displays on pretty much all of the recent Palms are more than readable in any light (and include a built-in digitizer), and when you take your Palm with you, nothing visible is left behind...good from a security standpoint.
(The Tungsten T has a pretty good MP3/Ogg player for it already, but you're limited to whatever music you can shoehorn into an SD card. By using a Palm (or maybe another handheld) as just a display, you could have access to however much music you can cram onto a hard drive.)
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Maybe it depends on the number of differences between boards, but I replaced one AMD 760MPX-based board (an MSI K7D Master) with another (a Tyan Tiger MPX) and didn't have to reinstall WinXP. I went into the swap thinking that I'd need to reinstall, but for once WinXP surprised me in a good way. It sounds like your change was a bit more drastic than mine (from a VIA chipset to an nVidia chipset)...neither WinXP nor Win2K would be happy with such a swap. (Win98 would've had no problem with it...let it redetect everything and get on with life.)
Score: -1, Punny. :-P
It's not distilled, either. It's probably just the same water that goes into the making of soft drinks, but without the carbonation and flavorings. It's no doubt filtered or otherwise treated, but I would be surprised if they'd use such a relatively expensive process as distillation (it takes lots of energy to create steam from water, and it takes lots more energy to condense the steam back into water).
If you get "5, Troll," you win!
They only refused because she was a total dumbass and klutz. Putting a somewhat fragile container full of hot liquid between your legs is just stupid. Put it in a cup holder...that's why they're there.
blackholes.us has a bunch of RBL lists that let you cut off incoming mail from whatever countries you want. I've found the China, Hong Kong, and Brazil lists particularly useful. (I also have incoming mail checked against relays.osirusoft.com and bl.spamcop.net...when I temporarily disabled those a few days ago, I must've gotten half-a-dozen "here's how to make your johnson bigger" messages in one hour. Normally, that crap doesn't get through.)
The scary part is that there actually is such a product on the market. From their page:
Umm...yeah. Whatever. That sounds like the kind of thing the old biddy with the toy poodle/Chihuahua/Pomeranian/[insert annoying small-dog breed here] that never stops yapping would buy for the little beast.
It depends on the program...in Visual Studio, for instance, a couple of options that come up if you hit the menu key on a variable let you go to where that variable is declared or defined. Maybe there's a more direct keyboard shortcut that does the same thing, but it's difficult to keep up on every keyboard shortcut for every program (especially for something that's particular to one program).
I'm not claiming that the menu key is useful everywhere, but your claim that it's useful nowhere doesn't track with my experience. If you don't like it, nobody's forcing you to use it...there's usually more than one way to get something done, and which method someone prefers is likely to be determined by previous experience. (For instance, some people are under the impression that mouse gestures are the greatest thing since sliced bread. This page leads me to believe otherwise...why bother with remembering some squiggle to draw with a mouse to (for instance) change tabs when Ctrl-Tab does the same thing?)
Alt-Tab and Ctrl-Tab are your friends. :-)
All the time...the less frequently you have to go to the mouse, the better.
The Model M I'm using now doesn't have the Windows or menu keys on it, but I use RemapKey to remap the right Alt & Ctrl keys (which would otherwise go unused).
Strangely enough, the Windows key is also useful on a Mac...it does the work of the Open-Apple key on an Apple keyboard (and Alt takes the place of Option). I have some ADB keyboards I could use...and one of them is connected to a Quadra 610. The beige G3 uses a PS/2-to-USB adapter to share the same Focus keyboard and Microsoft optical mouse that are used by my x86 boxen. I don't think the menu key is mapped to anything, though...having it serve as the Reset/Power key would be useful.
All ham is pork (ignoring turkey "ham" for the moment, since that's just a chunk of turkey flavored like smoked/cured ham), but not all pork is ham. A ham is a hind leg of a pig (or is cut from it). It's usually cured and smoked, but fresh ham isn't. Other cuts have other names (ribs, bacon, etc.).
Bender.
Nope...it's two-thirds of both houses of Congress, followed by three-fourths of the state legislatures. The process can also be started by two-thirds of the state legislatures calling for a constitutional convention, but we've not had one of those since the Constitution was put into effect.
The RIAA's business model is outdated, but that is the most asinine argument for a change that I've ever heard. In case you're still going by what the government schools' "social studies" classes drilled into your head, the United States is not a democracy. It never has been and, God willing, never will be. Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for dinner...while it's great for the majority, it tends to walk all over the rights of minorities if left to its own devices.
Sending people to jail for downloading music when murderers and rapists are being set free as a result of overcrowding is wrong, but try to come up with something better than warmed-over communism if you want to see things change.
IIRC, Las Vegas is west of Wyoming. Phoenix is, too. Moving away from the Left Coast ought to be sufficient.
At a previous job, we called that "professional laziness." After spending an hour (if that) going through the few things that we weren't able to completely automate, I'd spend a good bit of the extra time reading email and/or /.. We also did a fair amount of "network testing" that involved analysis tools with names like "Axis & Allies" and "Delta Force." :-)
Moving out of the high-rent district would fix that. Buying is also cheaper than renting...the condo I'm in right now runs me ~$570 for everything--principal, taxes, PMI, HOA (that alone is $90/month), etc.
Making your own coffee every morning instead of blowing $3-$5 @ Starbucks would knock most of that out. I would be surprised if I'm spending more than $200 per month, and I'm still eating out more than I should (need to lose this spare tire :-| ).
Uncle Sam does want an overly-large chunk of your money. Stop voting for Democrats and maybe taxes will return to somewhat sane levels.
For gas and insurance, that sounds about right.
I've had that since I finished college.
T-shirts and shorts are cheap, and in the summer months they're all you need for any true geek job. If you can get to Comdex, you could more than likely score some T-shirts for free.
OK, so I haven't bothered starting one yet and have no immediate plans to do so.
$20/month @ Netflix takes care of that.
Two weeks a year.
Sounds like you need to find a better job.
I started at $24k before I graduated (started when I still had one semester to go) and went to $40k after graduation. I'm still there a year and a half after graduation (about two years total), with frequent raises and a couple of bonuses. I'm doing the network and UI parts of video communication apps. (I also did the first version of the wavelet compression we're using, but that's been handed off to someone else who's better at making code run fast.) The first versions of these apps are for Win32, but Apple and SGI are interested in what our company is doing, so maybe I'll score a G5 to go next to the dual Athlon MP and get to learn coding for Mac OS X. (Nearly everything I know about Win32 coding I picked up on the job, having gotten nearly all the way through college working mostly with Linux and other UN*Xish systems.) I've also convinced the boss that HP Pavilions really aren't cut out for business use, so I build/configure the new computers that we need. I also keep the network running. With all of that stuff going on in a tech company that's been growing at a moderate pace for ~20 years, I think I'm in a fairly good position. It might not pay as much as the dot-commers were getting...but at least I have a job. :-)
According to this Morse code table, it means =. I guess it was in there as a space...though AFAIK a space in Morse is represented as just a pause between words (just as youwouldn'trunwordstogetherwhenyouspeakorwrite).
The distribution technology is in place...if the cable company wanted to charge me $3-$5 per channel per month for ad-free TV, I'd sign up right now. Of the hundreds of channels available to me on digital cable, I think I watch maybe half-a-dozen regularly and another half-dozen occasionally. The rest don't get watched; some of them are even unflagged on my TiVo as "channels I watch" so their listings don't show up. The cost to me per month would be about the same as what I'm paying now (or maybe less). A decent chunk of each channel's monthly cost would go straight to the network...multiply that by a few million for the less-viewed channels (or tens of millions for the more popular channels) and I'd think they'd have enough money to operate without ads.
My parents find it amusing when I'm visiting them and I hit Mute on their TV when ads come up. They don't complain, but they don't bother muting ads themselves unless they're really annoying. When they start talking about some ad they'd seen that they found funny, I almost never know WTF they're talking about.
To the clueless moderator who marked this reply as flamebait:
Windows XP [Home|Professional] is a desktop/workstation OS. It is not a server OS. Unlike WinNT and Win2K, there was never a server version of WinXP. It will not function as a domain controller. (Hell, WinXP Home won't even log into a domain.) There's Windows Server 2003 now, but it's not XP-anything.
Fscking clueless idiot mods...
Whatever you say, troll. Maybe you can also tell me which way the egg rolls off the henhouse when the rooster sitting on top of it lays an egg.
Read this for enlightenment.
I think a better (or at least more clever) option would be to use Bluetooth to connect a Palm to it, and use that as the display. Some models (like the Tungsten T) have Bluetooth built in, the displays on pretty much all of the recent Palms are more than readable in any light (and include a built-in digitizer), and when you take your Palm with you, nothing visible is left behind...good from a security standpoint.
(The Tungsten T has a pretty good MP3/Ogg player for it already, but you're limited to whatever music you can shoehorn into an SD card. By using a Palm (or maybe another handheld) as just a display, you could have access to however much music you can cram onto a hard drive.)