I live in Florida, and I rarely loose it even in the rainy season during torrential downpours.
WOW... Now that's a testiment if I've ever heard one. I used to live in St. Petersburg, FL and those storms you guys get down there in Florida are violent. If it stands up to that, I'd say it's pretty good.
If you can get away with it, think about not putting it on your roof.
I second that. Although I don't have the sat net connection, I have DirecTV and I put my dish on the wall under the roof overhang. It keeps the rain and whatever else falling from the sky off of it.
Although, I've yet to test it with snow/ice considering it doesn't do that here....
One of my bots on IRC i run from this dialup has an idle time of [] idle: 41d 2h 8m 11s [Tue Dec 16 12:29:19 2003]
No one I know on cable/dsl has stability like that.
I'm not trying to nitpick or anything, but my cablemodem has stayed up more than 3 times that long..... and that's only because I rebooted my firewall to update it's kernel. (Phoenix, AZ... Cox Cable)
Maybe dialup wouldn't be so crappy, if the Internet wasn't so bloated. People do web pages like modern programmers do software. Lazy and bloated.
I'm relatively sure that the internet isn't the cause of a modem connection getting less than 40K download speed. Try downloading updates with a modem, it physically hurts.
It's not that what X does isn't valuable, it's that desktops built in an X environment have just too much overhead associated with them. I'm glad you like it. I think you're one of the few.
I challenge you to run TWM or some other Window Manager over X. Then you'll take notice that the overhead isn't with X, but with the toolkits in use over it. I've been running X since the days of the late 386/early 486 and I've noticed the toolkits layering over top of each other nonstop. Xlib was originally used, then abstract layering came into play to make it easier to code for. Thus you have QT and GTK, which IMHO are bloated to all hell and back.
The point I'm making in this post is that X itself is very streamlined considering what it does. Taking out the remote abilities would more than likely save only 1 millisecond or so considering everything is usually done through the local Unix sockets anyway.
First audio I downloaded was Monty Python's Holy Grail snippets in AU format on the HP UX machines at work while I was in college back in 1992... It took me forever to figure out how to play them.
I don't think the question was 'What was the first audio you downloaded?'. It's obvious there was audio far before MP3 was around..voc,.au,.wav,.mod, (insert your favourite proprietary sound file here) were around far before MP3 but just never had the compression/perfection that MP3 had.
All of that aside though, playing an au on an hpux in '92 definately earns you geek points:)
Sympathy? Aside from the toll road for which the costs may or may not be recovered through the user fees (tolls) the cheater in question is travelling on taxpayer-funded roads. Somebody has to pay for that infrastructure--and if he's not paying his taxes, then the roads are being paid for out of mine. Sympathy my ass. Nail the bastard to the wall.
Most roads are paid for by license/car-tax/registration fees.
Please document your claim that things once legal are now illegal
*Smoking in a bar in California. *Reverse engineering in certain situations. *Bringing sharp objects onto an airplane. *Calling a woman at work a "broad" or something else derogatory, and borderline sexual. (Sexual harrassment charges, if pushed) *Neon lights on your car in certain locations. *Having a plastic (total sorrounding) holder on your license plate in certain locations. *Sharing information on "cracking" operating systems. (Be it good, or bad)
In general I don't have much sympathy for RSI sufferers. (I was going to put sufferers in quotes, but thought better of it:-).
I use a keyboard something like 8 hours a day, and have done for the last 15 years, programming computers. If anyone is a prime candidate, it's me, and no RSI as yet. On the other hand, I'm reasonably careful - I don't hammer the keyboard, and I try to rest all my forearms on the desk in front of the keyboard. Sensible things to minimise the effect... unlike "gestures", which are just a disaster waiting to happen, IMHO.
In general, I don't have much sympathy for cancer sufferers. (I was going to put sufferers in quotes, but thought better of it:-).
I smoke something like 1 pack a day, and have done for the the last 15 years, smoking marlboros. If anyone is a prime candidate, it's me, and no cancer as yet. On the other hand, I'm reasonably careful - I don't inhale too deep, and I try to make each cigarette last by putting it out in the middle. Sensible things to minimise the effect... unlike "smokeless tobacco" which is just a disaster waiting to happen, IMHO.
the above was meant as satire. It's not my belief.
RCN (ex-Erols), yes... even Cox Cable charges like 5 a month or so for an IP. When I was on dialup with RCN (Erols Internet), I had a static IP and it was supposed to cost 20 a year. Now, it's supply versus demand.
You know, that's about like starting off a conversation with "I don't know what I'm talking about, but..."
Each computer gets its dotted-quad address, In IPV6, every computer gets it's own hex-encoded address, also. Just a different way of putting it.
For basic routing, I just set the ipforwarding flag in OpenBSD. NAT also makes DHCP less necessary.
You still need to allocate IPs to each computer, whether you use NAT or not. It's just a different IP schema. If you staticly placed the IP, it's the same as if you were staticaly placing a routable IP. NAT and DHCP are totally different things.
Of course, a Fortune 500 company would reach different conclusions based on their complexity, but, then, a Fortune 500 company is supposed to have people on staff who understand networking through and through (key words: supposed to).
There's a far cry between a small business and a Fortune 500 company. A Fortune 500 company would have a turnkey solution more than likely to interconnect their different offices through someone like Qwest or MCI, letting them take care of the actual network routing. Done right, you honestly don't need people on hand that are guru enough to translate a packet down to it's individual bytes, remembering sequences that occur in the different segments that, occurring in certain orders, mean a certain issue is happening. Those people are called consultants:)
To be honest, I'm a little intimidated by IPV6. I'll admit it, but I'm not going to make excuses all the while trying to validate my use of a 10.x.x.x network in a corporate environment. As of right now though, the support for IPV6 is not where it should be. You can't just pick up a version of Windows off the shelf and have IPV6 enabled, and alot of networked appliances aren't IPV6 aware. Thankfully, there's IPV6to4 tunnelling, which will make it so much easier.
No, they are censoring pro-weapons related sites. There's a link to buy a gun on the MAIN page of nra.org.
Yeah, can't be reading those websites that have an opposing view. By the way, if you knew anything about federal law, you'd realize that in order for a sale to happen, a licensed (FFL) dealer must transact the sale on both sides. You cannot do mail order any other way. If they are 18 or over, and can show ID to an FFL licensed dealer, then by all means they can buy a weapon. There's nothing wrong with that. But since they are under 18 theoretically, they cannot. Checks and balances are great things.
Quick, off the top of your head and with only one command, how do you install a service on a Debian box to share a directory with an old PowerMac 6100 running MacOS 8.6?
In addition, if you bury the waste in the desert, in containers that don't corrode, where's the harm?
Hey now... I live in the desert. Phoenix was a tiny little place back in the 50's (compared to how it is now) and just imagine how it'd be if they decided to bury the nuclear waste in the "desert" outside of Phoenix back then. Safely out of the way of the citizens, of course. And forgotten about.
Then, fast forward to 2003, construction is occuring 30+ miles north of where Phoenix stopped back then. other towns further north have grown outward towards the south and north, and the once known "desert" is slowly becoming our children's backyard. Just imagine your son/daughter (or grand-daughter, grand-son) buying a house in what once was desert way back in 2004/2005 for a pretty decent price of $800,000 in 2050. With all of their saved money invested in the initial downpayment, it's going to be pretty hard to afford the doctor bills that slowly but steadily appear.
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I live in Florida, and I rarely loose it even in the rainy season during torrential downpours.
WOW...
Now that's a testiment if I've ever heard one. I used to live in St. Petersburg, FL and those storms you guys get down there in Florida are violent. If it stands up to that, I'd say it's pretty good.
BEFORE it snows! :P
If you can get away with it, think about not putting it on your roof.
I second that. Although I don't have the sat net connection, I have DirecTV and I put my dish on the wall under the roof overhang. It keeps the rain and whatever else falling from the sky off of it.
Although, I've yet to test it with snow/ice considering it doesn't do that here....
One of my bots on IRC i run from this dialup has an idle time of
[] idle: 41d 2h 8m 11s [Tue Dec 16 12:29:19 2003]
No one I know on cable/dsl has stability like that.
I'm not trying to nitpick or anything, but my cablemodem has stayed up more than 3 times that long..... and that's only because I rebooted my firewall to update it's kernel.
(Phoenix, AZ... Cox Cable)
Maybe dialup wouldn't be so crappy, if the Internet wasn't so bloated. People do web pages like modern programmers do software. Lazy and bloated.
I'm relatively sure that the internet isn't the cause of a modem connection getting less than 40K download speed.
Try downloading updates with a modem, it physically hurts.
The GDI changed with Windows 95.
After that I stopped caring when it changed. I jumped boat.
Hey, good point!
Okay, pound away...
It's not that what X does isn't valuable, it's that desktops built in an X environment have just too much overhead associated with them. I'm glad you like it. I think you're one of the few.
I challenge you to run TWM or some other Window Manager over X. Then you'll take notice that the overhead isn't with X, but with the toolkits in use over it.
I've been running X since the days of the late 386/early 486 and I've noticed the toolkits layering over top of each other nonstop. Xlib was originally used, then abstract layering came into play to make it easier to code for. Thus you have QT and GTK, which IMHO are bloated to all hell and back.
The point I'm making in this post is that X itself is very streamlined considering what it does. Taking out the remote abilities would more than likely save only 1 millisecond or so considering everything is usually done through the local Unix sockets anyway.
First audio I downloaded was Monty Python's Holy Grail snippets in AU format on the HP UX machines at work while I was in college back in 1992... It took me forever to figure out how to play them.
.voc, .au, .wav, .mod, (insert your favourite proprietary sound file here) were around far before MP3 but just never had the compression/perfection that MP3 had.
:)
I don't think the question was 'What was the first audio you downloaded?'. It's obvious there was audio far before MP3 was around.
All of that aside though, playing an au on an hpux in '92 definately earns you geek points
Hmmmm.... Glowing bacteria? What would that be like?
There are some species that live in lakes and such that do it.
It's caused from feeding other cows to a cow.
America just televises their arrogance and obnoxiousness.
The rest of the world has shown it since the dawn of time.
Isn't that when you take photos of tits? (ariola) If not, it may be mistaken for it.
Nah.. that's called pornography.
Or a mammogram. Take your pick.
Sympathy? Aside from the toll road for which the costs may or may not be recovered through the user fees (tolls) the cheater in question is travelling on taxpayer-funded roads. Somebody has to pay for that infrastructure--and if he's not paying his taxes, then the roads are being paid for out of mine. Sympathy my ass. Nail the bastard to the wall.
Most roads are paid for by license/car-tax/registration fees.
Please document your claim that things once legal are now illegal
*Smoking in a bar in California.
*Reverse engineering in certain situations.
*Bringing sharp objects onto an airplane.
*Calling a woman at work a "broad" or something else derogatory, and borderline sexual. (Sexual harrassment charges, if pushed)
*Neon lights on your car in certain locations.
*Having a plastic (total sorrounding) holder on your license plate in certain locations.
*Sharing information on "cracking" operating systems. (Be it good, or bad)
Laws change. NEVER do they change to be more lax.
In general I don't have much sympathy for RSI sufferers. (I was going to put sufferers in quotes, but thought better of it :-).
:-).
I use a keyboard something like 8 hours a day, and have done for the last 15 years, programming computers. If anyone is a prime candidate, it's me, and no RSI as yet. On the other hand, I'm reasonably careful - I don't hammer the keyboard, and I try to rest all my forearms on the desk in front of the keyboard. Sensible things to minimise the effect... unlike "gestures", which are just a disaster waiting to happen, IMHO.
In general, I don't have much sympathy for cancer sufferers. (I was going to put sufferers in quotes, but thought better of it
I smoke something like 1 pack a day, and have done for the the last 15 years, smoking marlboros. If anyone is a prime candidate, it's me, and no cancer as yet. On the other hand, I'm reasonably careful - I don't inhale too deep, and I try to make each cigarette last by putting it out in the middle. Sensible things to minimise the effect... unlike "smokeless tobacco" which is just a disaster waiting to happen, IMHO.
the above was meant as satire. It's not my belief.
RCN (ex-Erols), yes... even Cox Cable charges like 5 a month or so for an IP. When I was on dialup with RCN (Erols Internet), I had a static IP and it was supposed to cost 20 a year. Now, it's supply versus demand.
Well, I'm not a highly-experienced admin,
:)
You know, that's about like starting off a conversation with "I don't know what I'm talking about, but..."
Each computer gets its dotted-quad address,
In IPV6, every computer gets it's own hex-encoded address, also. Just a different way of putting it.
For basic routing, I just set the ipforwarding flag in OpenBSD. NAT also makes DHCP less necessary.
You still need to allocate IPs to each computer, whether you use NAT or not. It's just a different IP schema. If you staticly placed the IP, it's the same as if you were staticaly placing a routable IP. NAT and DHCP are totally different things.
Of course, a Fortune 500 company would reach different conclusions based on their complexity, but, then, a Fortune 500 company is supposed to have people on staff who understand networking through and through (key words: supposed to).
There's a far cry between a small business and a Fortune 500 company. A Fortune 500 company would have a turnkey solution more than likely to interconnect their different offices through someone like Qwest or MCI, letting them take care of the actual network routing. Done right, you honestly don't need people on hand that are guru enough to translate a packet down to it's individual bytes, remembering sequences that occur in the different segments that, occurring in certain orders, mean a certain issue is happening. Those people are called consultants
To be honest, I'm a little intimidated by IPV6. I'll admit it, but I'm not going to make excuses all the while trying to validate my use of a 10.x.x.x network in a corporate environment. As of right now though, the support for IPV6 is not where it should be. You can't just pick up a version of Windows off the shelf and have IPV6 enabled, and alot of networked appliances aren't IPV6 aware. Thankfully, there's IPV6to4 tunnelling, which will make it so much easier.
No, they are censoring pro-weapons related sites. There's a link to buy a gun on the MAIN page of nra.org.
Yeah, can't be reading those websites that have an opposing view.
By the way, if you knew anything about federal law, you'd realize that in order for a sale to happen, a licensed (FFL) dealer must transact the sale on both sides. You cannot do mail order any other way.
If they are 18 or over, and can show ID to an FFL licensed dealer, then by all means they can buy a weapon. There's nothing wrong with that.
But since they are under 18 theoretically, they cannot. Checks and balances are great things.
and the little poppy things were getting annoying.
Instead of patching a blown tire, why not replace it?
RUN A FIREWALL.
Quick, off the top of your head and with only one command, how do you install a service on a Debian box to share a directory with an old PowerMac 6100 running MacOS 8.6?
:)
sudo apt-get install apache ?
And it is politically incorrect to post conmmand line instructions without specifying which distro it is for. What about us Gentoo users?
:P
You don't have to worry, Gentoo was smart enough to leave out the messenger service
Steps to stop and disable a service running on Linux: 3
1) Open a Command Prompt (OK, OK, Terminal Session)
2) Type: service messenger stop
3) Type: chkconfig messenger off
Wow.. Lindows has the "service" and "chkconfig" apps?
Because no one else would be stupid enough to log into X as root.
In addition, if you bury the waste in the desert, in containers that don't corrode, where's the harm?
Hey now... I live in the desert. Phoenix was a tiny little place back in the 50's (compared to how it is now) and just imagine how it'd be if they decided to bury the nuclear waste in the "desert" outside of Phoenix back then. Safely out of the way of the citizens, of course. And forgotten about.
Then, fast forward to 2003, construction is occuring 30+ miles north of where Phoenix stopped back then. other towns further north have grown outward towards the south and north, and the once known "desert" is slowly becoming our children's backyard. Just imagine your son/daughter (or grand-daughter, grand-son) buying a house in what once was desert way back in 2004/2005 for a pretty decent price of $800,000 in 2050. With all of their saved money invested in the initial downpayment, it's going to be pretty hard to afford the doctor bills that slowly but steadily appear.
For the love god, mod this up.. this is informative.
If I had mod points, I would!