I swear I saw more Windows systems than Linux/BSD/Mac at DEFCON... Especially by the Wall of Sheep.... that place was a virtual microsoft-haven. I'm surprised no one did an all out Windows hack there and turn everyone into zombie systems controlled from a central point. That's the first thing that popped into my head when I saw so many ppl using Windows.
It boils down to a certain religious site (and a great many relgious individuals) believing that the earth was populated 5,000 years ago and there being living documented proof of it being populated longer. Nothing more, no need to harp on it.
The grandparent was obviously designed as a tongue-in-cheek joke, none the less.
Okay, let's get this straight.. you consider firefox refreshing a webpage that has html in it saying to refresh every 900 seconds a bug?
Just for the record, I'm on firefox 8.0 and http://atrios.blogspot.com/ loads fine and never reloads.... I didn't check the rest because to be quite honest I'm not that bored.
Yep... about as logical as a wAr3z site having a motd saying something like "Private FTP server, everything on here is copyright someone else, ftp software copyright Us" and that'd make it alright to download....
Microsoft was the first to do a majority of things cheaply on a configurable platform that 3rd party customers could assemble, sell and ship.
Microsoft "wrote" an operating system, they didn't make the entire industry. They provided MS-DOS to IBM who made the computers that were "cheap" and configurable, that 3rd party customers could assemble, sell, and ship.
I just wanted to clarify this so no one read your post and thought Microsoft was the sole entrepreneur of the microcomputer industry.
I see you don't do much SQL coding in multiple environments.
Once you find yourself in the middle of an 19-page SQL app with no syntax highlighting you'll be eating those words. Syntax highlighting is great if your doing everything on your own machine, but try walking that same code through 4-5 different environments, and perhaps even embedding it into code segments. Not everything's as clear as "select * from foo where foo.bar = 'stuff'".
Oh man, that reminds me of my last job where this one guy kept insisting our senior DBAs should stop using capitals and he kept arguing with them! ahah.. it was hilarious. Should have heard the jokes in the breakroom during the brief time he was there! I think he had like 3-4 years of experience then...
What's sad is that you still need to fight for every grain of freedom in America.... If it's not in the constitution/bill-of-rights, it's against the law....
Unless you've purchased a saturn or other vehicle with the newer warranties that offer that routine service in it's clauses, then it's not covered under the warranty. It's cheaper than paying for the oil changes, etc, separately... but it's still a heavy lump of cash all at once. It's a separate more expensive option.
At Pep Boys you're LUCKY if any of the people there are even ASE certified.
I have to agree that the majority of mechanics at pep boys are borderline shade-tree mechanics, there is at least 1 ASE mechanic on their payroll. There has to be in order to hang the ASE certified sign in their shop.
Just because it's that way, doesn't mean it's right... It's about the same as if I start selling cars for example. I sell... Jettas. Yes, that's it, Jettas. I sell the cars for $2,000, and my business model is to sell the cars for that much and make up the difference by offering a paintjob for the car. Oh, I forgot to mention all my Jettas are sold without a paintjob, just primered. Why, people start buying my Jettas but refuse my $6,000 paintjob! I'm pissed, I'm losing money! I'm going to have a law made that if you want to buy a Jetta without a paintjob, you have to get a paintjob from me! Sure, it sounds somewhat feasible... because you can go elsewhere.. BUT... suppose I was the only Jetta dealer around. Anywhere. To add insult to injury, I don't tell you that you can't get a paintjob on your own, you have to find this out on your own. Of course, common logic would dictate that you've just purchased something, and it's yours... right? You should be able to just take your paintless Jetta, tag/title/insure it, and drive it on down to Maaco to slap a cheap $279 paintjob on it. Since you've done that, you've broken my business model.. that's not allowed! I'm not making any money because I have a flawed business model that can be easily circumvented.. for LEGAL reasons, and in LEGAL ways.
Once you buy something, unless you sign something saying you give up your right as a consumer to actually alter an item you buy, or you rent/lease it, you can do anything you want to it. Owning pirated games for it is another story, however. Running Linux on it though is perfectly legal, no matter who you piss off.
Reminds me of the "special key" needed to remove my stereo... 2 U-shaped pieces of metal that can be made out of a metal clothes-hanger:D They sell them at Walmart for like 7-8 bucks....
Nope, the hookups/interfacing has changed significantly since those days. I have a 91 Capri XR2, and there are codes around for both the Capri and the 323-GTX for that year. (both use about the same system, Capri has more codes tho) For my car, it's as simple as grounding out a green connector on the firewall while the engine is off (but warm), and reading the light blinks off of the "check engine" light. Resetting it is as simple as taking off the negative battery terminal and holding the brake in for a few seconds to flush the residual compacitor charge.
My wife's car is a 98, and it's worlds different computer-wise. I'd have to plug one of those modules into a section on the fuse-box, and hope it has the numbers in it to display what the error is. If not, your SOL....
Most times it's as easy as removing the negative battery terminal for a minute or so (overkill but time varies, so why not go a minute or so) and pressing the brake to drain the system for about 10 seconds.
That, or by a chilton manual, and read how to reset your computer "the right way". Or don't even buy it, just go to the auto store, and read the section real quick;)
I would expect any car to reach 40K miles without any squeeks or rattles....
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Not safe at all :P
I swear I saw more Windows systems than Linux/BSD/Mac at DEFCON...
Especially by the Wall of Sheep.... that place was a virtual microsoft-haven.
I'm surprised no one did an all out Windows hack there and turn everyone into zombie systems controlled from a central point. That's the first thing that popped into my head when I saw so many ppl using Windows.
No no no... it's referred to as a "colony" ;)
It boils down to a certain religious site (and a great many relgious individuals) believing that the earth was populated 5,000 years ago and there being living documented proof of it being populated longer. Nothing more, no need to harp on it.
The grandparent was obviously designed as a tongue-in-cheek joke, none the less.
I guess companies tend to become a little greedy and overzealous given a chance.....
I'd say the conversion due to avoid locking down IE is enough to cover what you're asking.
Okay, let's get this straight.. you consider firefox refreshing a webpage that has html in it saying to refresh every 900 seconds a bug?
Just for the record, I'm on firefox 8.0 and http://atrios.blogspot.com/ loads fine and never reloads....
I didn't check the rest because to be quite honest I'm not that bored.
Yep... about as logical as a wAr3z site having a motd saying something like "Private FTP server, everything on here is copyright someone else, ftp software copyright Us" and that'd make it alright to download....
Sorta feels like your back in Beginner C/C++ class, doesn't it?
:P
It's a sad day when a C coder needs to justify the upper-case he uses on constants
Well, some people are Jehovah's Witnesses too. That doesn't make them right.
Preprocessor directives are pretty much always typed in upper-case to differentiate them from everything else.
I don't feel like using hungarian notation in my friggin preprocessor directives, either. Else, they start resembling variables. That'd be bad.
You obviously forgot how to read then.
My post addressed your "modern tool" theory.
Microsoft was the first to do a majority of things cheaply on a configurable platform that 3rd party customers could assemble, sell and ship.
Microsoft "wrote" an operating system, they didn't make the entire industry. They provided MS-DOS to IBM who made the computers that were "cheap" and configurable, that 3rd party customers could assemble, sell, and ship.
I just wanted to clarify this so no one read your post and thought Microsoft was the sole entrepreneur of the microcomputer industry.
I see you don't do much SQL coding in multiple environments.
Once you find yourself in the middle of an 19-page SQL app with no syntax highlighting you'll be eating those words. Syntax highlighting is great if your doing everything on your own machine, but try walking that same code through 4-5 different environments, and perhaps even embedding it into code segments.
Not everything's as clear as "select * from foo where foo.bar = 'stuff'".
Oh man, that reminds me of my last job where this one guy kept insisting our senior DBAs should stop using capitals and he kept arguing with them! ahah.. it was hilarious. Should have heard the jokes in the breakroom during the brief time he was there! I think he had like 3-4 years of experience then...
Oh wait...
That's how you differentiate the code from the selected info.
Anyone with a beginners SQL book can tell you that.
no, he cut his teeth on an Commodore supercomputer.
:P but not *that* much.
WTF?
A Sun Mainframe?! That goes against the whole philosophy of Sun... They were originally geared towards cheap desktop unix systems.
Yeah.. they've swayed a little
What's sad is that you still need to fight for every grain of freedom in America....
If it's not in the constitution/bill-of-rights, it's against the law....
Don't forget the very limited-edition horsepower enhancing Type-R sticker....
Jesus.. did Chrysler consult with Konami or something when trying to figure out a way to get the codes manually?!
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I'm surprised it wasn't something like up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right-a-b-b-a-sta
Unless you've purchased a saturn or other vehicle with the newer warranties that offer that routine service in it's clauses, then it's not covered under the warranty. It's cheaper than paying for the oil changes, etc, separately... but it's still a heavy lump of cash all at once. It's a separate more expensive option.
At Pep Boys you're LUCKY if any of the people there are even ASE certified.
I have to agree that the majority of mechanics at pep boys are borderline shade-tree mechanics, there is at least 1 ASE mechanic on their payroll. There has to be in order to hang the ASE certified sign in their shop.
Or the lack of logic.
Just because it's that way, doesn't mean it's right...
It's about the same as if I start selling cars for example. I sell... Jettas. Yes, that's it, Jettas. I sell the cars for $2,000, and my business model is to sell the cars for that much and make up the difference by offering a paintjob for the car. Oh, I forgot to mention all my Jettas are sold without a paintjob, just primered. Why, people start buying my Jettas but refuse my $6,000 paintjob! I'm pissed, I'm losing money! I'm going to have a law made that if you want to buy a Jetta without a paintjob, you have to get a paintjob from me!
Sure, it sounds somewhat feasible... because you can go elsewhere.. BUT...
suppose I was the only Jetta dealer around. Anywhere.
To add insult to injury, I don't tell you that you can't get a paintjob on your own, you have to find this out on your own. Of course, common logic would dictate that you've just purchased something, and it's yours... right? You should be able to just take your paintless Jetta, tag/title/insure it, and drive it on down to Maaco to slap a cheap $279 paintjob on it.
Since you've done that, you've broken my business model.. that's not allowed! I'm not making any money because I have a flawed business model that can be easily circumvented.. for LEGAL reasons, and in LEGAL ways.
Once you buy something, unless you sign something saying you give up your right as a consumer to actually alter an item you buy, or you rent/lease it, you can do anything you want to it. Owning pirated games for it is another story, however. Running Linux on it though is perfectly legal, no matter who you piss off.
Reminds me of the "special key" needed to remove my stereo... 2 U-shaped pieces of metal that can be made out of a metal clothes-hanger :D
They sell them at Walmart for like 7-8 bucks....
You know those balls you put on your antenna to find your car in the parking lot? Everybody should have those!
If everyone had one.. then wouldn't that counteract the purpose? =)
Nope, the hookups/interfacing has changed significantly since those days.
I have a 91 Capri XR2, and there are codes around for both the Capri and the 323-GTX for that year. (both use about the same system, Capri has more codes tho) For my car, it's as simple as grounding out a green connector on the firewall while the engine is off (but warm), and reading the light blinks off of the "check engine" light. Resetting it is as simple as taking off the negative battery terminal and holding the brake in for a few seconds to flush the residual compacitor charge.
My wife's car is a 98, and it's worlds different computer-wise. I'd have to plug one of those modules into a section on the fuse-box, and hope it has the numbers in it to display what the error is. If not, your SOL....
Most times it's as easy as removing the negative battery terminal for a minute or so (overkill but time varies, so why not go a minute or so) and pressing the brake to drain the system for about 10 seconds.
;)
That, or by a chilton manual, and read how to reset your computer "the right way". Or don't even buy it, just go to the auto store, and read the section real quick
I would expect any car to reach 40K miles without any squeeks or rattles....