You're lucky if your PSTs get backed up nicely. Lots of people keep Outlook running all the time, and that means it has an exclusive lock on the PSTs. Then the backup process fails to copy the PST.
So we have files that aren't on a backed-up server, can't live on a backed-up network share, and often fail to backup from local starage via local back-up systems.
Our central IT dept gives us something like 100MB of quota on the Exchange server. Running out of quota? The official advice is 'save your stuff in a PST file'.
Of course you can't save your PST on the IT dept-supplied backed-up network drive because MS say "don't do that". So people end up with PST files on unbacked-up local storage on a particular machine...
Well it's all academic anyway since in a few years we'll all be driving electric cars with no gearboxes. And probably no steering wheels, accelerator, or brake pedals. Just type in where you want to go and off it goes. And they'll fly. And they'll all be pink, have flat little noses and curly tails.
In the UK you can pass your test in an automatic car, but then you aren't allowed to drive a stick (what we call 'manual gearbox'). You need to take your test in a manual gearbox car to be allowed to drive manual+auto.
One of the great things about old land rovers like mine is of course the non-standard controls that make it harder for people to steal. First it's diesel, so you have to know to warm the engine on the 'glow' setting for a bit. If they get past that and the engine starts, then they have to know I've left the transfer box lever in neutral so the wheels won't go round even with the gear lever in. Oh and just for fun I can leave it in 4wd so if they do nick it the transmission will lock up on the road and leave them with a broken car. And half the time the battery is disconnected anyway because it goes flat if I don't drive for two weeks. Drive-by-wire? No thanks! And all those wusses complaining about failing power steering! Sheesh, grow some muscles!
Is it true that in some parts of California it's illegal to dry your laundry outside? That in parts of a state that is predominantly hot and dry the only legal way of getting your clothes dry is to heat them and rotate them in a sealed metal drum?
It's a bit less than a big TV, but if you've got free air drying outside your door, you can use it for zero-carbon, zero-cost drying. Except of course all that laundry flapping around is going to bring down the price of houses in the neighborhood, because prospective buyers will think you're all too poor to afford dryers. Conspicuous consumption at its most brillant.
[Or at least that's the reason I understand for outside laundry lines]
Didn't the real 'leet guys switch to FSP in about ooh, 1876, to get round all the problems with FTP - no resumptions, security holes, up/down quotas etc?
Never mind them. There's plenty of people who think this is a secret NASA project to turn the moon into an interplanetary bombing range. And various new-agey types urging us not to bomb the moon, and to respect luna, and who will be praying for the moon tomorrow. O Rly? Ya rly. Just google for 'bombing the moon'.
If the probe misses I would bet these types would think it was the doing of their prayers....
I reckon the 10MB free account is mainly to give people a chance to check out the system and see if it's worth paying for more. I just got myself one, looked at the webmail client, thought 'this is a web 1.0 non-ajaxy non dragNdrop piece of donkey genitalia' and went back to gmail. Anyone know what it is?
I guess most slashdot leet haxxors will be using IMAP clients on their Macs, so only see the webmail interface as an emergency fallback when their Macs and iPhones have HCF'd.
The 'fm' extension is clearly a repetition of 'FastMail'. They do have a whole load of other domains you can generate accounts on too - fastmail.various-other-tlds, and a bunch of other related names I forget now.
He's 60 so maybe 20 years. SAS is a huge, expensive, and in these days anachronistic package - or rather big mess of packages. It really has not moved on from punch cards. How long has it got?
If he wanted to provide a legacy he could give some money to open source development - R could do a lot with a million, look what it does with pretty much nothing (www.r-project.org).
How expensive is SAS? Someone on the R mailing list asked about whether to use R or SAS for a web-based stats server. Someone commented that the last time he checked the price of a web-enabled SAS it was $25,000. R is free.
I had to use SAS once to get some data out of it. After two days I literally had nightmares about it. I was flying inside a huge warehouse full of SAS windows....
"Microsoft's Zune HD, set to go on sale Tuesday, will not feature a tightly controlled by control freaks with degrees in control freakery application store like its competitor the iPod Touch."
A single mind, whether artificial or natural, cannot make an ultraintelligent machine. Think how many people it takes to design and make the PC in front of you. Circuit boards, wires, chips, power supplies, BIOS, disks, CPUs, operating systems etc etc. No one brain designed that, and no one brain completely understands it.
The current generation of so-called intelligent machines (computers) are made by our culture, and it would take a massive culture shift to build a culture-framework capable of producing ultraintelligent machines.
I doubt it would bother, it would find better things to do.
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Now he should try asking that kid about The Beatles. He may well find that the infinite music is not a continuum.
You're lucky if your PSTs get backed up nicely. Lots of people keep Outlook running all the time, and that means it has an exclusive lock on the PSTs. Then the backup process fails to copy the PST.
So we have files that aren't on a backed-up server, can't live on a backed-up network share, and often fail to backup from local starage via local back-up systems.
No wonder people like to print their emails out.
Our central IT dept gives us something like 100MB of quota on the Exchange server. Running out of quota? The official advice is 'save your stuff in a PST file'.
Of course you can't save your PST on the IT dept-supplied backed-up network drive because MS say "don't do that". So people end up with PST files on unbacked-up local storage on a particular machine...
Well it's all academic anyway since in a few years we'll all be driving electric cars with no gearboxes. And probably no steering wheels, accelerator, or brake pedals. Just type in where you want to go and off it goes. And they'll fly. And they'll all be pink, have flat little noses and curly tails.
In the UK you can pass your test in an automatic car, but then you aren't allowed to drive a stick (what we call 'manual gearbox'). You need to take your test in a manual gearbox car to be allowed to drive manual+auto.
One of the great things about old land rovers like mine is of course the non-standard controls that make it harder for people to steal. First it's diesel, so you have to know to warm the engine on the 'glow' setting for a bit. If they get past that and the engine starts, then they have to know I've left the transfer box lever in neutral so the wheels won't go round even with the gear lever in. Oh and just for fun I can leave it in 4wd so if they do nick it the transmission will lock up on the road and leave them with a broken car. And half the time the battery is disconnected anyway because it goes flat if I don't drive for two weeks. Drive-by-wire? No thanks! And all those wusses complaining about failing power steering! Sheesh, grow some muscles!
Maybe the solution is to invent the combo-giant-TV-clothes-dryer? Don't try this at home, just yet. Those little vents on your TV are important...
Is it true that in some parts of California it's illegal to dry your laundry outside? That in parts of a state that is predominantly hot and dry the only legal way of getting your clothes dry is to heat them and rotate them in a sealed metal drum?
Compare with TV usage here:
http://www.carbonfootprint.com/energyconsumption.html
It's a bit less than a big TV, but if you've got free air drying outside your door, you can use it for zero-carbon, zero-cost drying. Except of course all that laundry flapping around is going to bring down the price of houses in the neighborhood, because prospective buyers will think you're all too poor to afford dryers. Conspicuous consumption at its most brillant.
[Or at least that's the reason I understand for outside laundry lines]
Iceland? That would be BjorkBjorkBjork surely?
This is a Muppets' Swedish Chef reference.
...manages to run a single world instance - it does raytraced graphics in real time, the fees aren't too bad but I'm not sure how to respawn.
Or forcing them to the effort of sticking a live boot disk in, and maybe also making their system boot from CD.
Or forcing them to get the source and port it to Windows.
Didn't the real 'leet guys switch to FSP in about ooh, 1876, to get round all the problems with FTP - no resumptions, security holes, up/down quotas etc?
According to The Register, it's "Treehugging, possibly lycanthropic web-2.0 campaigners" - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/07/stop_nasa_bombing_the_moon/
Never mind them. There's plenty of people who think this is a secret NASA project to turn the moon into an interplanetary bombing range. And various new-agey types urging us not to bomb the moon, and to respect luna, and who will be praying for the moon tomorrow. O Rly? Ya rly. Just google for 'bombing the moon'.
If the probe misses I would bet these types would think it was the doing of their prayers....
How often does a meteor this big hit the moon?
Rule 34 on the judges? No thanks.
On this day, make every Anonymous Coward show up as 'Bruce'.
I reckon the 10MB free account is mainly to give people a chance to check out the system and see if it's worth paying for more. I just got myself one, looked at the webmail client, thought 'this is a web 1.0 non-ajaxy non dragNdrop piece of donkey genitalia' and went back to gmail. Anyone know what it is?
I guess most slashdot leet haxxors will be using IMAP clients on their Macs, so only see the webmail interface as an emergency fallback when their Macs and iPhones have HCF'd.
The 'fm' extension is clearly a repetition of 'FastMail'. They do have a whole load of other domains you can generate accounts on too - fastmail.various-other-tlds, and a bunch of other related names I forget now.
Did you not read the links from TFA:
http://www.google.com/support/toolbar/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=157294
It might work, or it might suck. Only one way to find out...
Sall or SAS?
He's 60 so maybe 20 years. SAS is a huge, expensive, and in these days anachronistic package - or rather big mess of packages. It really has not moved on from punch cards. How long has it got?
If he wanted to provide a legacy he could give some money to open source development - R could do a lot with a million, look what it does with pretty much nothing (www.r-project.org).
How expensive is SAS? Someone on the R mailing list asked about whether to use R or SAS for a web-based stats server. Someone commented that the last time he checked the price of a web-enabled SAS it was $25,000. R is free.
I had to use SAS once to get some data out of it. After two days I literally had nightmares about it. I was flying inside a huge warehouse full of SAS windows....
"Microsoft's Zune HD, set to go on sale Tuesday, will not feature a tightly controlled by control freaks with degrees in control freakery application store like its competitor the iPod Touch."
Fixed.
Can anyone extrapolate screen size to see what year this will happen:
Frank's 2000" TV
Is that the same place as kernel hackmeister Alan Cox went to? Oh the irony...
"One of the world's largest" is actually number two, according to Wikipedia, behind Disney. So now we know what his real target is. The Mouse.
That's been replaced with pages on EncyclopediaDramatica - this was front-page stuff there recently:
http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Liskula_Cohen
NSFW. And very skanky. And Lulzy.
How can you trust that a user hasn't used a privilege escalation to install a rootkit already? You can't trust apt-get, or yum, or anything.
Fresh install time, surely? Back to the bare metal.
A single mind, whether artificial or natural, cannot make an ultraintelligent machine. Think how many people it takes to design and make the PC in front of you. Circuit boards, wires, chips, power supplies, BIOS, disks, CPUs, operating systems etc etc. No one brain designed that, and no one brain completely understands it.
The current generation of so-called intelligent machines (computers) are made by our culture, and it would take a massive culture shift to build a culture-framework capable of producing ultraintelligent machines.
I doubt it would bother, it would find better things to do.