For anyone in the unix world, this is a ridiculous question. Serial ain't goin' nowhere, thank Xenu. Actually, MacOSX + screen + generic USB serial dongle works darn well for consoling into host serials..
For Windows folks, I can understand the curiosity.
I do wonder why more businesses don't move to lowtaxland, particularly states with no corporate or personal income tax. Why Silicon Valley hasn't migrated to Austin TX or Vegas I'll never know. I wouldn't start a business, hire folks, or live in CA at this point.
It's shit like this that makes me glad we live in a free system that has competition, even as messy as it gets (and yeah, corruption, incompetence, etc. I get it).
If you don't like Amazon's shenanigans, there's bn.com, powells.com, daedalusbooks.com, etc.
Incidentally, IIRC, Borders' online fulfillment got outsourced to Amazon years ago, their online presence otherwise is a pathetic fuckin joke compared to bn.com, I haven't shopped Borders since I got my 3rd edition Player's Handbook at the Borders in the WTC..
As long as it can produce files that will play on my PS3 properly without reencoding/transcoding, that's OK with me.
My Xtreamer actually handles MKVs properly, PS3 not so much, alas.
I just wonder if/when there'll be an opensource project that isn't as antagonistic to its user community, I haven't seen developer crankiness like that since friggin OpenBSD. I wonder if the devs are plants from Slysoft that drive 'normal' users into buying paid copies of AnyDVD?
If NY/CA/etc want to collect sales tax revenue from out-of-state retailers with no domestic presence, let them collect directly from their own citizens.
Not that I care, my state doesn't collect retail sales tax. Meh.
Assuming, of course, that you can get access to the breathalyzer's source code so that independent expert witnesses can analyze it for possible holes.
Also, of course, no police officer EVER makes a mistake when it comes to operating and maintaining breathalyzer equipment.
Whoever actually does this twittering crap is liable for slander charges, unless the person accused is found guilty in a court of law by a jury of their peers.
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Oh and while we're on the topic of governments acting sensibly, our presently rigth-wing government has lowered taxes AND cut carbon emissions. They basically reduced income tax and started taxing fossil fuels instead with the overall effect being a net reduction in tax revenue. So much for global warming just being a scam to tax us...
Plus, you're doing your part to drive the camel-fuckers and post-bolsheviks into penury, and for that I for one am appreciative.
Whoever made this decision at General Atomics should be put up against the wall and shot. I assume it was management not wanting to get stuck with $100 bill of materials for a slightly faster CPU or DSP that can do realtime encryption, or by underbidding enough to get the contract only to cheap out and fuck it up.
Whoever accepted this for the military should be court-martialed, put up against a wall, and shot. Folks that stupid should be nowhere near technology. This is also likely some form of typical military graft, and at this point the folks involved probably have cushy General Atomics mob jobs.
We (the Allies we) cracked Enigma and Purple, and we get down to this.. It's not like uncrackable crypto isn't available FOR FREE, often designed by folks on the military payroll in some fashion years or decades ago.
Well, IMO there's a certain point as an admin where you hit a compensation/challenge wall, and from there you either go into management or into consulting (or just get bored and rot in place, like me).
If you're being asked to do more shit for the same pay, then that's not a promotion, and I'd find another job if I could.
And like I said, it depends. Family? Mortgage? Mafia debts? All are factors that modify the put-up-with-this-shit meter.
Incidentally, I think the type/character of org you're in plays a role as well. If mgmt is a bunch of clubby, clueless fucks, far better to have a meat shield than be directly in contact with them, for everyone's safety and health.
Actually, worse than Vista, more like a bastard stepchild of Vista and OS X 10.0 (aka the paid beta)... Have missing features from 3.5 finally been implemented in 4.x? Last time I touched it (4.2 IIRC) it was still buggy as hell and almost all the stuff I had known from 3.5 was gone. Heck, can kpanels (or whatever they are) stretch across xinerama/twinview screens yet?
BTW, has KDE4 finally gotten the useful 'run command' in whatever they call kpanel now? One that hooks into konqueror shortcuts so you can fire off URLs, man pages, shortcutted searches, commands, etc? At this point I'm limping along with deskbar-applet but it's not nearly as good.
ps: Missing features are not wishlist items. They are bugs.
Why can't anyone get this as right as *shudder* Windows?
Dare I dream of Mac audio?
Heck, why not just have a mixing driver for/dev/dsp that doesn't crash or drop out? That's probably what 90%+ of linux desktop users really want, and for the audio nerds let them deal with JACK et al on their own time..
Verizon: great network, over priced, over locked-down on devices, stupid costy "services"..
I guess the question is, has Apple forced them to stop being stupid, or will they do stuff like disable built-in functionality on android phone to sell overpriced crap service that would have been provided for free by the hardware?
... And with all the complaining about 'proprietary' clouds, why not build your own?
To my mind, the useful cloud is basically clustering plus virtualization, minus expensive licenses (if you use Ubuntu Server, Fedora or other OSS 'cloud' components).. And IIRC you can 'pickle' a cloud instance and run it on EC2, though I'm not sure if you'd be able to do the reverse..
(I wonder if there's a market in rent-an-instance using open tools and providing 2-way VM access..)
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I mean, if his _Battlefield Earth_ is anything to go by..
Also, did he hold the camera straight?
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For anyone in the unix world, this is a ridiculous question. Serial ain't goin' nowhere, thank Xenu. Actually, MacOSX + screen + generic USB serial dongle works darn well for consoling into host serials..
For Windows folks, I can understand the curiosity.
Serial is the ASCII of communications links.
I do wonder why more businesses don't move to lowtaxland, particularly states with no corporate or personal income tax. Why Silicon Valley hasn't migrated to Austin TX or Vegas I'll never know. I wouldn't start a business, hire folks, or live in CA at this point.
Does Empathy have OTR encryption yet?
If not, it is useless.
err 2nd ed, need more coffee...
It's shit like this that makes me glad we live in a free system that has competition, even as messy as it gets (and yeah, corruption, incompetence, etc. I get it).
If you don't like Amazon's shenanigans, there's bn.com, powells.com, daedalusbooks.com, etc.
Incidentally, IIRC, Borders' online fulfillment got outsourced to Amazon years ago, their online presence otherwise is a pathetic fuckin joke compared to bn.com, I haven't shopped Borders since I got my 3rd edition Player's Handbook at the Borders in the WTC..
LOL the xtranormal.com bits on Red Eye are better
As long as it can produce files that will play on my PS3 properly without reencoding/transcoding, that's OK with me.
My Xtreamer actually handles MKVs properly, PS3 not so much, alas.
I just wonder if/when there'll be an opensource project that isn't as antagonistic to its user community, I haven't seen developer crankiness like that since friggin OpenBSD. I wonder if the devs are plants from Slysoft that drive 'normal' users into buying paid copies of AnyDVD?
Constitutional law smackdown in 5.. 4.. 3..
Meh, these dopey boxes don't do UPnP or DLNA, therefore they are worthless.
My xtreamer may be a buggy pain in the butt, but at least it will stream off my ps3mediaserver, and it costs far less than a PS3 or XBox.
http://www.xtreamer.net/
Commerce clause commerce clause commerce clause.
If NY/CA/etc want to collect sales tax revenue from out-of-state retailers with no domestic presence, let them collect directly from their own citizens.
Not that I care, my state doesn't collect retail sales tax. Meh.
Assuming, of course, that you can get access to the breathalyzer's source code so that independent expert witnesses can analyze it for possible holes.
Also, of course, no police officer EVER makes a mistake when it comes to operating and maintaining breathalyzer equipment.
Whoever actually does this twittering crap is liable for slander charges, unless the person accused is found guilty in a court of law by a jury of their peers.
Oh and while we're on the topic of governments acting sensibly, our presently rigth-wing government has lowered taxes AND cut carbon emissions. They basically reduced income tax and started taxing fossil fuels instead with the overall effect being a net reduction in tax revenue. So much for global warming just being a scam to tax us...
Plus, you're doing your part to drive the camel-fuckers and post-bolsheviks into penury, and for that I for one am appreciative.
Whoever made this decision at General Atomics should be put up against the wall and shot. I assume it was management not wanting to get stuck with $100 bill of materials for a slightly faster CPU or DSP that can do realtime encryption, or by underbidding enough to get the contract only to cheap out and fuck it up.
Whoever accepted this for the military should be court-martialed, put up against a wall, and shot. Folks that stupid should be nowhere near technology. This is also likely some form of typical military graft, and at this point the folks involved probably have cushy General Atomics mob jobs.
We (the Allies we) cracked Enigma and Purple, and we get down to this.. It's not like uncrackable crypto isn't available FOR FREE, often designed by folks on the military payroll in some fashion years or decades ago.
Thanks, GA, for ruining my morning.
Where can I apt-get / yum / emerge / pkg / etc. that application from?
Looks interesting...
Knock knock.
Who's there?
Shut the fuck up, Donny.
Well, IMO there's a certain point as an admin where you hit a compensation/challenge wall, and from there you either go into management or into consulting (or just get bored and rot in place, like me).
If you're being asked to do more shit for the same pay, then that's not a promotion, and I'd find another job if I could.
And like I said, it depends. Family? Mortgage? Mafia debts? All are factors that modify the put-up-with-this-shit meter.
Incidentally, I think the type/character of org you're in plays a role as well. If mgmt is a bunch of clubby, clueless fucks, far better to have a meat shield than be directly in contact with them, for everyone's safety and health.
Nook supports unencumbered formats, if you want to avoid the issue of monopoly, simply release your book unencumbered.
Incidentally, isn't every published book subject to the 'monopoly' of its publisher?
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Actually, worse than Vista, more like a bastard stepchild of Vista and OS X 10.0 (aka the paid beta)... Have missing features from 3.5 finally been implemented in 4.x? Last time I touched it (4.2 IIRC) it was still buggy as hell and almost all the stuff I had known from 3.5 was gone. Heck, can kpanels (or whatever they are) stretch across xinerama/twinview screens yet?
BTW, has KDE4 finally gotten the useful 'run command' in whatever they call kpanel now? One that hooks into konqueror shortcuts so you can fire off URLs, man pages, shortcutted searches, commands, etc? At this point I'm limping along with deskbar-applet but it's not nearly as good.
ps: Missing features are not wishlist items. They are bugs.
... I woulda stuck with aRTs.
Why can't anyone get this as right as *shudder* Windows?
Dare I dream of Mac audio?
Heck, why not just have a mixing driver for /dev/dsp that doesn't crash or drop out? That's probably what 90%+ of linux desktop users really want, and for the audio nerds let them deal with JACK et al on their own time..
Verizon: great network, over priced, over locked-down on devices, stupid costy "services"..
I guess the question is, has Apple forced them to stop being stupid, or will they do stuff like disable built-in functionality on android phone to sell overpriced crap service that would have been provided for free by the hardware?
Don't you oppress me!
... And with all the complaining about 'proprietary' clouds, why not build your own?
To my mind, the useful cloud is basically clustering plus virtualization, minus expensive licenses (if you use Ubuntu Server, Fedora or other OSS 'cloud' components).. And IIRC you can 'pickle' a cloud instance and run it on EC2, though I'm not sure if you'd be able to do the reverse..
(I wonder if there's a market in rent-an-instance using open tools and providing 2-way VM access..)