A few years ago a youngish lady approached me on the street asking if I could give her some money so she could get a prescription filled as she couldn't afford it.
I just assumed that she was being truthful, though later I had my doubts when I saw her talking to another person while still holding the script.
Thinking about it - I should have gone with her to the pharmacy and paid to get the prescription filled - that way I know that the money was getting used to do what she asked for.
Gets notification that RedHat 9 is the last of the series.
Sees that Fedora is essentially the replacement for the average geek.
Has a bit of a read about Fedora.
Downloads the current Fedore Core release 0.95
Burns this to a three CD set.
Just about to setup systems and have a play. Checks Slashdot for daily fix.
Fedore Core 1 is out.
Bastards.......more coasters.
Is there a site somewhere that has some basic information about ALL the various releases that are around. And when the next major updates are expected?
My experience learning Netware was made much easier as it was similar to the DECnet systemss that I had been using for the previous few years while at uni.
Sure it was complex getting the hang of installing printer queues for the first time, but soon they became second nature. Everything followed logically.
I loved the fact that there were not applications running on the server - they don't need to, it's there to serve data, not run MSOffice.
I found the fact that it was basically hardware independant as long as you kept the same network cards. Drop the netcard and the harddrive into a faster box, and turn it on - how simple could it get. (of course this was netware 3.12)
We've still got a netware 3.12 server at my work. It hosts a database for an application that we stopped using regularly a few years ago, gets backed up occasionally as the data on it doesn't change. We never got around to moving the database to our newer faster NT servers, as novell was much more responsive at returning data. Our old Novell 3.12 P2-233, could server data faster than our P3-800 NT Servers - and it didn't corrupt the 50 user access mdb either.
My thoughs on why Novell seems to have fallen out of mainstream use is that the new IT staffers have grown up hearing about Microsoft in the news all the time. They see that MS have market dominance as that is all they hear - go off and study MS software... eventually get to work and know all about MS products, and so they recommend MS solutions - the managers having not heard about Novell much either and also seeing MS everywhere accept these recommendations.
And then the systems are all running MS software - people soon forget just how stable a novell system was.
Our novell box goes down when the power is out and the runtime on the ups is all but gone.
Maybe the alien civilisation has got to a sufficiently advanced stage where they can send a signal out to the star systems that might support life in the local area.
When someone replies (or is themself detected) then they might consider that we will soon be worth contacting. The 100+ years that it takes for our signals to return to them would allow them time to prepare for the ensuing war that would no doubt follow soon after.
There are very active research programs going on in a number of defense groups concerning rail guns at all scales from personal defense to large scale cannons.
Yes, and of these I think the cannon are promising but the personal not. For example, by putting the this into artillery on an aircraft carrier you can shoot further and more accurately and you get power from the nuclear plant.
Very good - and in a few years scientists will perfect the 'Wave Motion Gun' and then we can run Star Blazers again.
Mercury, 2.1 inches. 0.4 mi. from Sun (.643 km) Venus, 5.2 inches 0.7 mile from Sun (1.13km) Earth, 5.5 inches 1 mile from sun - (1.609km) Moon, 1.5", 16ft from earth Mars, 2.9 inches, 1.5 miles from Sun (3.9km) Jupiter, 61.4 inches (5 feet), 5.3 mile from Sun (8.5km) Saturn, 51.9 inches, (9.7 miles from Sun)(15.6 km) Uranus, 22 inches, 19.5 miles from Sun (31.4km) Neptune, 21.3 inches, 30.6 miles from Sun (49.25km) Pluto, 1 inch, 40 miles from Sun (64.4km)
I think that these numbers show not only the large distances involved in space flight, but also that our telescopes are pretty amazing for the job that they do as well.
Perhaps they should show where all our interplanetary spacecraft are at the present time.
That '80 GB' hard drive you just bought isn't 80 GB, it's (depending on the manufacturer) either a 80,000,000,000 byte hard drive or a 80,000 MB hard drive.
Um, you do know that Gigabyte is 1,000,000,000 bytes.. you're thinking of Gibibytes. The harddrive people aren't lying to you, they're following the standards.
So when you can easily buy '1 Gig sdram (1024Mb) modules' and larger, what are they going to call them. And I bet that it's not going to be 1 Gibibyte modules.
The common user is not wanting yet more acronyms with their computers, there's enough already.
HP will let you put remanufactured toner cartridges in their laser printers, but advise that doing so will void any warranty claims that are caused by using that cartridge - that's perfectly reasonable to me.
I just wish that management at my company would stop purchasing the remanufactured cartridges. The black from them is dark grey, and the defect rate on them is fairly high with the company we buy from.
If a user comes with a printing error that is leaving marks down the page. I take a look at the page and often the first thing I do is install another cartridge, and then advise Admin of another faulty cartridge.
Remanufactured ones for LaserJet 4000 and 8000 series seem particularly poor. Though the real HP cartridges always seem to work properly
Ian. -- A penny save is a penny earned - But it's a waste of a deposit slp and pisses off the tellers.
Ok, slightly OT, and I doubt it's an original idea, but I wonder if it's possible for a mailer to have a "bounce" button that sends back a legitimate bounced-email response to any message you want. I imagine some spammers track bounces because they don't want to waste time/bandwidth/servers sending to obviously bad addresses.
There sure are. One I use is MailWasher.com, I use it to try remove myself and friends from 'Joe Random's Spam e-mail lists'. It has helped heaps in reducing spam e-mails.
But it's obvious that spammers either just don't care that there are some addresses that are not valid any more, or are working from old lists and don't want to update. There's some lists that I just can't seem to get off of. Gambling ones mainly.
Other than that problem which I can't do a lot about, the program is great, fast and the first thing I run each morning.
The problem with having a "Do Call" list is that shady telemarketing firms would just add people from their database to the "Do Call" list. How is the organization in charge of managing the "Do Call" list supposed to verify identity so that this doesn't happen?
I would think that you are very correct with the addition of names to the 'do call' list.
There's a surprising number of 'opt-in' lists that I appear to have added myself to. It's a pity that most of them don't have a working opt-out processing system as well.
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It's all there, and we were missing it all the time.
The discussion on the Radio National (Australia) this morning also said that there are no known missed shots either, and only the one shot per target, so whoever is doing this is also a very good shot.
There was the one that wasn't a direct kill, but still hit the target.
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Except for us poor souls in the small country next to New Zealand.
Australia, we don't get to see the movie until Dec 27.
"Frodo, the free Commodore 64 Emulator for your Palm Pilot. I can't wait to get this running so I can ..."
... play the old game of Stroker.
Never had a C64 myself, but saw this once on a friends computer and pissed myself laughing.
This one is always a family favourite.
/. family anyways.
bsod shirt No it's not a goats.ex link.
well
I remember learning at uni (as you do) the abbreviations as to what the letters in the name could stand for.
COBOL.
C*nt Of a Bloody 'Orrible Language.
I liked COBOL, you could do just about anything with it. Even somthing that looked like structured code.
Was more concerned with the fact that here in Australia, broadband is not that fast, nor cheap.
Mostly the time spent waiting for the downloads to complete.
A few years ago a youngish lady approached me on the street asking if I could give her some money so she could get a prescription filled as she couldn't afford it.
I just assumed that she was being truthful, though later I had my doubts when I saw her talking to another person while still holding the script.
Thinking about it - I should have gone with her to the pharmacy and paid to get the prescription filled - that way I know that the money was getting used to do what she asked for.
It is impossible to be 100 percent efficient. If these shells really existed we would most certainly be able to detect residual radiation.
We do, to us it looks like the radiation emitted by far away stars.
It's just that our technology isn't advanced enough to see what is really there.
Like the 'Truman Show' we will find the edge when we run into it. Ever wonder about the coincidences that happen in everyday life.
We ARE the reality TV show of the universe.
Wonder how many people have done like me.
...more coasters.
Gets notification that RedHat 9 is the last of the series.
Sees that Fedora is essentially the replacement for the average geek.
Has a bit of a read about Fedora.
Downloads the current Fedore Core release 0.95
Burns this to a three CD set.
Just about to setup systems and have a play.
Checks Slashdot for daily fix.
Fedore Core 1 is out.
Bastards....
Is there a site somewhere that has some basic information about ALL the various releases that are around. And when the next major updates are expected?
My experience learning Netware was made much easier as it was similar to the DECnet systemss that I had been using for the previous few years while at uni.
... eventually get to work and know all about MS products, and so they recommend MS solutions - the managers having not heard about Novell much either and also seeing MS everywhere accept these recommendations.
Sure it was complex getting the hang of installing printer queues for the first time, but soon they became second nature. Everything followed logically.
I loved the fact that there were not applications running on the server - they don't need to, it's there to serve data, not run MSOffice.
I found the fact that it was basically hardware independant as long as you kept the same network cards. Drop the netcard and the harddrive into a faster box, and turn it on - how simple could it get. (of course this was netware 3.12)
We've still got a netware 3.12 server at my work. It hosts a database for an application that we stopped using regularly a few years ago, gets backed up occasionally as the data on it doesn't change. We never got around to moving the database to our newer faster NT servers, as novell was much more responsive at returning data. Our old Novell 3.12 P2-233, could server data faster than our P3-800 NT Servers - and it didn't corrupt the 50 user access mdb either.
My thoughs on why Novell seems to have fallen out of mainstream use is that the new IT staffers have grown up hearing about Microsoft in the news all the time. They see that MS have market dominance as that is all they hear - go off and study MS software
And then the systems are all running MS software - people soon forget just how stable a novell system was.
Our novell box goes down when the power is out and the runtime on the ups is all but gone.
Can't wait for the next instalment of the replacement engine would return.
.
MARLAR - Marklar marklar with a marklar.
Marklar marklar has marklar the marklar marklar marklar to marklar marklar. Marklar said marklar marklar and marklar marklar
--
Marklar Marklar.
You've underestimated a little there.
A 500 square meter area got an average rainfall of 3cm
1m^2 = 100cm * 100cm = 10000cm^2
500m^2 * 10000 = 5000000cm^2
3cm * 5000000cm^2= 15000000cm^3
Pure Water having a specific gravity of 1.00g/cm^3
15,000,000 cm^3 * 1.00 = 15,000,000 grams or 15,000Kg = 15tonnes
Maybe the alien civilisation has got to a sufficiently advanced stage where they can send a signal out to the star systems that might support life in the local area.
When someone replies (or is themself detected) then they might consider that we will soon be worth contacting. The 100+ years that it takes for our signals to return to them would allow them time to prepare for the ensuing war that would no doubt follow soon after.
I for one will welcome our new alien overlords.
There are very active research programs going on in a number of defense groups concerning rail guns at all scales from personal defense to large scale cannons.
Yes, and of these I think the cannon are promising but the personal not. For example, by putting the this into artillery on an aircraft carrier you can shoot further and more accurately and you get power from the nuclear plant.
Very good - and in a few years scientists will perfect the 'Wave Motion Gun' and then we can run Star Blazers again.
Often when shopping, I'll be going to a few stored over the day.
If there are none on the shelves then I'll just pick them up somewhere else, as they are obviously not available here today.
One of my friends actually worked on these systems.
Beeline sells systems for fitting into all sort of agricultural systems.
They are GPS based with 20cm or 2cm accuracy depending on system.
I don't think the systems are sold as being driverless, but rather hands-free.
Mercury, 2.1 inches. 0.4 mi. from Sun (.643 km)
Venus, 5.2 inches 0.7 mile from Sun (1.13km)
Earth, 5.5 inches 1 mile from sun - (1.609km)
Moon, 1.5", 16ft from earth
Mars, 2.9 inches, 1.5 miles from Sun (3.9km)
Jupiter, 61.4 inches (5 feet), 5.3 mile from Sun (8.5km)
Saturn, 51.9 inches, (9.7 miles from Sun)(15.6 km)
Uranus, 22 inches, 19.5 miles from Sun (31.4km)
Neptune, 21.3 inches, 30.6 miles from Sun (49.25km)
Pluto, 1 inch, 40 miles from Sun (64.4km)
I think that these numbers show not only the large distances involved in space flight, but also that our telescopes are pretty amazing for the job that they do as well.
Perhaps they should show where all our interplanetary spacecraft are at the present time.
Anyone for a visit to the Total Perspective Vortex?
See how important you really are to the universe
--
Ian.
Um, you do know that Gigabyte is 1,000,000,000 bytes.. you're thinking of Gibibytes. The harddrive people aren't lying to you, they're following the standards.
So when you can easily buy '1 Gig sdram (1024Mb) modules' and larger, what are they going to call them.
And I bet that it's not going to be 1 Gibibyte modules.
The common user is not wanting yet more acronyms with their computers, there's enough already.
HP will let you put remanufactured toner cartridges in their laser printers, but advise that doing so will void any warranty claims that are caused by using that cartridge - that's perfectly reasonable to me.
I just wish that management at my company would stop purchasing the remanufactured cartridges. The black from them is dark grey, and the defect rate on them is fairly high with the company we buy from.
If a user comes with a printing error that is leaving marks down the page. I take a look at the page and often the first thing I do is install another cartridge, and then advise Admin of another faulty cartridge.
Remanufactured ones for LaserJet 4000 and 8000 series seem particularly poor. Though the real HP cartridges always seem to work properly
Ian.
--
A penny save is a penny earned - But it's a waste of a deposit slp and pisses off the tellers.
Ok, slightly OT, and I doubt it's an original idea, but I wonder if it's possible for a mailer to have a "bounce" button that sends back a legitimate bounced-email response to any message you want. I imagine some spammers track bounces because they don't want to waste time/bandwidth/servers sending to obviously bad addresses.
There sure are. One I use is MailWasher.com, I use it to try remove myself and friends from 'Joe Random's Spam e-mail lists'. It has helped heaps in reducing spam e-mails.
But it's obvious that spammers either just don't care that there are some addresses that are not valid any more, or are working from old lists and don't want to update. There's some lists that I just can't seem to get off of. Gambling ones mainly.
Other than that problem which I can't do a lot about, the program is great, fast and the first thing I run each morning.
Ian.
The problem with having a "Do Call" list is that shady telemarketing firms would just add people from their database to the "Do Call" list. How is the organization in charge of managing the "Do Call" list supposed to verify identity so that this doesn't happen?
I would think that you are very correct with the addition of names to the 'do call' list.
There's a surprising number of 'opt-in' lists that I appear to have added myself to. It's a pity that most of them don't have a working opt-out processing system as well.
Ian.
I would have though that most of the porn out there isn't just holding their own, but holding someone else's.
We used windows to set up a boot partition for our Novell (3.12) server a while ago.
On boot: shows the Starting Windows95 screen, for a second, then replaced by the Novell console startup.
Worried me a little the first time that I saw it, but works well.
Ian.
Have you read the Moderator Guidelines yet?
One of these days I should like to have a good read of it.
Ian.
Small addition,
1 free Viagra
2 penis enlarged
3 FREE HOT XXX TEENS
4 lose 500 pounds in two weeks
5 an easy college diploma
making money very quickly
6 Profit!!!
It's all there, and we were missing it all the time.
The discussion on the Radio National (Australia) this morning also said that there are no known missed shots either, and only the one shot per target, so whoever is doing this is also a very good shot.
There was the one that wasn't a direct kill, but still hit the target.
Ian.