This is true. An opportunity to whup on Sonic would always be welcome.;) You can throw Crash Bandicoot in there for grins, but really, he never had enough of an impact to matter anyway...
That said though, characters?
Billy/Jimmy Lee (Double Dragon) Rash/Zitz/Pimple (Battletoads) Bill Rizer/Lance Bean (Contra) Alex/Ryan (River City Ransom) Megaman Master (Forget his name) (Adventure Island)
I think I have to disagree. Most of the better gigabit nics out there support PXE boot. Get a small boot loader image going. If these will all be on the same lan segment, at boot time it will grab the latest loader image, boot the small loader (~2MB). The loader can then boot the full OS image.
You can then just capture or encapsulate the computing session to an image file. It's not a full virtualized environment, as you still get the benefits of the cpu horsepower at the workstation, but if corruption occurs ou just roll back the session file. I think.
This is how Windows hibernation functions in a nutshell, just dumps RAM to a file I think. I haven't tried this in practice, but it should work.
I'm tired here, not fully awake and need to rush out the door, but I'm thinking I could fix this from a zone file in a bind, although the logic escapes me much the same way a hosts fix wouldn't.
have a zone that is simply 'cm'? Have all entries that are cm get parsed by an external script that could run a regex and send them to $1.com instead? Bah...gotta wake up here.
Nah, it's not most of them. It's just that the one or two are the most vocal of the bunch and the ones I have to deal with the most as a result. Weeding out those "one or two" would go a long way towards making me a happier person. Too bad at least one of them is in a long term deal with my other partners, and alienating them would alienate my partners as well, so I have to endure. The other I'm in the process of moving to another provider as we speak.
Yup. I've learned over time however that hard and fast rules have rarely won over anyone for anything. Compassion for the needs of others and a desire to do right will however often win out. It sounds to me as though the person has taken every reasonable recourse, and if he has in fact approached the neighbor directly with a kind disposition and that has failed, has approached law enforcement, and that has failed, a mild bending of the rules and a "what he doesn't know won't hurt him" attitude probably isn't the worst approach.
Bash me if you like, but unless you can suggest a better course of action than "return fire!", I would appreciate a bit more levity. I'm not heartless here.
Well, being a business owner, I ALMOST agree with the GP. Sometimes this isn't an option because of contracts or other outstanding agreements, but it seems like I attract customers that are never happy, no matter what you do for them. Example - I have a nameless client that I agreed to complete a project with 10 hours of labor with very specific terms. I have now sunk in 30 hours of labor, it's gone way out of scope, they refuse to pay overage, and the project still isn't done.
Now what do you do? The project is at a halt, I can't in good conscience put more hours over there in, AND they expect us to support their entire network environment for free. It's just not going to happen. I'm very close to referring them to the competition and telling them to have a nice day. Now, word of mouth *would* hurt in this situation, but then again, which is worse? A little bad publicity, or the day to day headaches of dealing with someone like this? I'm not going to be as flippant about it as the GP, but sometimes, it's the only way to go...
amoral, perhaps. However, consider this attitude as well:
It's only wrong if you get caught.;)
(I don't actually buy into that attitude, but humor me for a moment.)
Consider for a moment what the poster said - it's well out of his hearing range. So...2 am, wear earplugs. Go over to the unit, if you can, simply short one of the wires running to the speakers. If that's unreasonable, a few drops of super-glue down into the cone of the unit might just do the trick.
The power light still comes on, the old man feels more safe, and the rest of the neighborhood has peace. Win-win.
Not had that great of luck with Brother printers in the past, had some weirdness with the built-in print server vs. OSX CUPS print queuing in 10.4 server. If that's a problem on my part, so be it.:)
If you happen to be in the midwest, here in St. Louis we have a vendor that buys huge lots of hardware from companies that go under. As a result I managed to pick up a a Color Laserjet 4550n with full toner and JetDirect card for about $300.:D I'm not a salesperson for them, but you get awesome pricing on used stuff, like $100 for a rack. They're EPC around here, in St. Charles, MO in fact. They have a website, http://www.pconramp.com./
Maybe they'll give me some free stuff for mentioning them?:P They don't have the better stuff out front, the real goodies are in back. They tend to cater to businesses more than individuals (perhaps why I get such good pricing?), but still it's worth a look.
The moral of the story is that if you don't require new, look at used. Also, be forewarned: my 4550n is awesome, however it takes FOREVER to warm up, calibrate, and print. It also likes to make background noise. A LOT OF IT. If it weren't in my office and a common and acceptable thing, I think I would go insane.
"The United States has the world's largest number of unsecured Windows machines, therefore making it painfully easy for anyone to become a spam king from the comfort of their own home by creating their own botnet."
To be fair, I didn't complete mine, but my degree was a Liberal Arts degree, bachelor of christian science in management information systems (not to be confused with christian scientists).
Went to Greenville College, which is a small Christian Liberal Arts school near St. Louis. I actually went there to study music originally (Jars of Clay hail from there).
Wound up running my own IT company. I haven't seen any friends with big red feet around here lately, so I think I'm safe.;)
I think the problem here is the rule of diminishing returns. There are very few people that would be able to garner full benefit of this configuration. There are large corporations that could, sure, and perhaps a few years down the road individuals would as well.
Another diminishing return is the benefit of cramming that many drives into 4u of space. I've recently had the benefit of trying out ATA over Ethernet and a company named Coraid sells what they call an SR1520. It's a 15 drive unit with a SATA backplane that fits into 3u, and then you can either buy their little 1u debian box (CLN20) to act as a NAS or BYO. That's 4u with 15 drives, decent performance, and the cost of buying from then runs ~$8000 for a full setup, and you get 7.5TB of raw storage, and all you need is a layer 2 switch, no fiber channel to mess with, and it's not over IP.
You could build that same unit on your own if you felt like hacking it together for about $2000. The neat thing about ATA over Ethernet is that you use LVM2 and you can just keep slapping more AoE drives into the setup. So let's say you had the cash to toss around, you get 3 of these SR1520's, and you take up 9u instead of 4u, get the same storage benefits. Downside is that you eat up more rack space and the whole setup eats more power. Again, rule of diminishing returns...how much is that dollar to you vs. the rack space and power requirements involved?
I could see considering using this, but I would prefer that at very least the box run linux or freebsd to keep our environment uniform. Adding yet another *nix to the mix adds another layer of management responsibility I'd like to avoid. (No flame wars, please.)
Tangent. You're hacked off about bluetooth phones, or bluetooth headsets?
I kind of appreciate the headsets. Aside from the fact that it makes a person look like they're talking to themselves, it seem to get them to speak more quietly than if they were using their handset. Just personal preference, but I'm biased as I own one as well, but I primarily use it if I have to take a call in the car.
Now to do the stereotypical thing and quote wikipedia (which is always accurate to the letter, just like the King James Bible):
"Marty carries a snapshot of himself with his sister and brother, and 1955 Doc Brown discovers they are fading out, first Dave, the oldest, then Linda. Marty finds himself stranded, not having brought any additional plutonium back with him. The plutonium is used to create the "1.21 gigawatts" of electricity used to power the flux capacitor. Doc explains that only a bolt of lightning has the sufficient power required. Marty was given a fundraising flyer from 1985 that recounts the story of how the town's clock tower was to be struck by lightning the following Saturday in 1955."
"Slalom Section: Vehicle must traverse 30.5 meters (100 feet) slalom section in less than 15 seconds."
They're using a lawnmower engine that can do up to 3600 RPM, 4 cycle. (4 cylinders then?)
Also, section 40.1:
"Minimum and Maximum Speed Requirement
The performance run will consist of each vehicle running six laps around a 2.6 km (1.6 mile) oval test track. The vehicle must achieve a minimum six lap average speed of 24 km/hr (15 mph)."
So there you have it. It has to go at least as fast as someone could bike.:D
"This means that each vehicle will be required to travel a total distance of 15.5 km (9.6 miles) in a maximum of 38.4 minutes. The vehicle must not exceed a single lap average speed of 25 mph."
WTF???? This I don't get. I guess they're wanting the entrants to not somehow burst on a lap to alter typical performance?
So whatever the case, these vehicles, per the rules, cannot do more than 25 mph. That sucks.
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Thank you. I remembered after I left for the gym this morning. :)
I saw someone mention Simon Belmont. Of course, I can't believe I left him off.
This is true. An opportunity to whup on Sonic would always be welcome. ;) You can throw Crash Bandicoot in there for grins, but really, he never had enough of an impact to matter anyway...
That said though, characters?
Billy/Jimmy Lee (Double Dragon)
Rash/Zitz/Pimple (Battletoads)
Bill Rizer/Lance Bean (Contra)
Alex/Ryan (River City Ransom)
Megaman
Master (Forget his name) (Adventure Island)
I think I have to disagree. Most of the better gigabit nics out there support PXE boot. Get a small boot loader image going. If these will all be on the same lan segment, at boot time it will grab the latest loader image, boot the small loader (~2MB). The loader can then boot the full OS image.
You can then just capture or encapsulate the computing session to an image file. It's not a full virtualized environment, as you still get the benefits of the cpu horsepower at the workstation, but if corruption occurs ou just roll back the session file. I think.
This is how Windows hibernation functions in a nutshell, just dumps RAM to a file I think. I haven't tried this in practice, but it should work.
I'm tired here, not fully awake and need to rush out the door, but I'm thinking I could fix this from a zone file in a bind, although the logic escapes me much the same way a hosts fix wouldn't.
have a zone that is simply 'cm'? Have all entries that are cm get parsed by an external script that could run a regex and send them to $1.com instead? Bah...gotta wake up here.
Uh, no. Just my attitude on life. :P
Nah, it's not most of them. It's just that the one or two are the most vocal of the bunch and the ones I have to deal with the most as a result. Weeding out those "one or two" would go a long way towards making me a happier person. Too bad at least one of them is in a long term deal with my other partners, and alienating them would alienate my partners as well, so I have to endure. The other I'm in the process of moving to another provider as we speak.
Yup. I've learned over time however that hard and fast rules have rarely won over anyone for anything. Compassion for the needs of others and a desire to do right will however often win out. It sounds to me as though the person has taken every reasonable recourse, and if he has in fact approached the neighbor directly with a kind disposition and that has failed, has approached law enforcement, and that has failed, a mild bending of the rules and a "what he doesn't know won't hurt him" attitude probably isn't the worst approach.
Bash me if you like, but unless you can suggest a better course of action than "return fire!", I would appreciate a bit more levity. I'm not heartless here.
Well, being a business owner, I ALMOST agree with the GP. Sometimes this isn't an option because of contracts or other outstanding agreements, but it seems like I attract customers that are never happy, no matter what you do for them. Example - I have a nameless client that I agreed to complete a project with 10 hours of labor with very specific terms. I have now sunk in 30 hours of labor, it's gone way out of scope, they refuse to pay overage, and the project still isn't done.
Now what do you do? The project is at a halt, I can't in good conscience put more hours over there in, AND they expect us to support their entire network environment for free. It's just not going to happen. I'm very close to referring them to the competition and telling them to have a nice day. Now, word of mouth *would* hurt in this situation, but then again, which is worse? A little bad publicity, or the day to day headaches of dealing with someone like this? I'm not going to be as flippant about it as the GP, but sometimes, it's the only way to go...
amoral, perhaps. However, consider this attitude as well:
;)
It's only wrong if you get caught.
(I don't actually buy into that attitude, but humor me for a moment.)
Consider for a moment what the poster said - it's well out of his hearing range. So...2 am, wear earplugs. Go over to the unit, if you can, simply short one of the wires running to the speakers. If that's unreasonable, a few drops of super-glue down into the cone of the unit might just do the trick.
The power light still comes on, the old man feels more safe, and the rest of the neighborhood has peace. Win-win.
Not had that great of luck with Brother printers in the past, had some weirdness with the built-in print server vs. OSX CUPS print queuing in 10.4 server. If that's a problem on my part, so be it. :)
:D I'm not a salesperson for them, but you get awesome pricing on used stuff, like $100 for a rack. They're EPC around here, in St. Charles, MO in fact. They have a website, http://www.pconramp.com./
:P They don't have the better stuff out front, the real goodies are in back. They tend to cater to businesses more than individuals (perhaps why I get such good pricing?), but still it's worth a look.
If you happen to be in the midwest, here in St. Louis we have a vendor that buys huge lots of hardware from companies that go under. As a result I managed to pick up a a Color Laserjet 4550n with full toner and JetDirect card for about $300.
Maybe they'll give me some free stuff for mentioning them?
The moral of the story is that if you don't require new, look at used. Also, be forewarned: my 4550n is awesome, however it takes FOREVER to warm up, calibrate, and print. It also likes to make background noise. A LOT OF IT. If it weren't in my office and a common and acceptable thing, I think I would go insane.
"The United States has the world's largest number of unsecured Windows machines, therefore making it painfully easy for anyone to become a spam king from the comfort of their own home by creating their own botnet."
Ja ne!
For worse. :)
(sorry, had to be said. Coming from a Firefox/Core Duo Mac mini user)
To be fair, I didn't complete mine, but my degree was a Liberal Arts degree, bachelor of christian science in management information systems (not to be confused with christian scientists).
;)
Went to Greenville College, which is a small Christian Liberal Arts school near St. Louis. I actually went there to study music originally (Jars of Clay hail from there).
Wound up running my own IT company. I haven't seen any friends with big red feet around here lately, so I think I'm safe.
pull me under, I'm not afraid. :P
Translation - they're all going to be sequels. No original content from us. We're EA, what did you expect?
and I quote:
"NOTICE: We collect personal information on this site."
Ya think?!?
I never made the connection! Thanks Mr. Obvious!
I think the problem here is the rule of diminishing returns. There are very few people that would be able to garner full benefit of this configuration. There are large corporations that could, sure, and perhaps a few years down the road individuals would as well.
Another diminishing return is the benefit of cramming that many drives into 4u of space. I've recently had the benefit of trying out ATA over Ethernet and a company named Coraid sells what they call an SR1520. It's a 15 drive unit with a SATA backplane that fits into 3u, and then you can either buy their little 1u debian box (CLN20) to act as a NAS or BYO. That's 4u with 15 drives, decent performance, and the cost of buying from then runs ~$8000 for a full setup, and you get 7.5TB of raw storage, and all you need is a layer 2 switch, no fiber channel to mess with, and it's not over IP.
You could build that same unit on your own if you felt like hacking it together for about $2000. The neat thing about ATA over Ethernet is that you use LVM2 and you can just keep slapping more AoE drives into the setup. So let's say you had the cash to toss around, you get 3 of these SR1520's, and you take up 9u instead of 4u, get the same storage benefits. Downside is that you eat up more rack space and the whole setup eats more power. Again, rule of diminishing returns...how much is that dollar to you vs. the rack space and power requirements involved?
I could see considering using this, but I would prefer that at very least the box run linux or freebsd to keep our environment uniform. Adding yet another *nix to the mix adds another layer of management responsibility I'd like to avoid. (No flame wars, please.)
Tangent. You're hacked off about bluetooth phones, or bluetooth headsets?
I kind of appreciate the headsets. Aside from the fact that it makes a person look like they're talking to themselves, it seem to get them to speak more quietly than if they were using their handset. Just personal preference, but I'm biased as I own one as well, but I primarily use it if I have to take a call in the car.
no no no no no no......
;)
Build a man a fire, keep him warm for the night. Set a man on fire and keep him warm for the rest of his life.
How many times do we have to go through this? :P
Now to do the stereotypical thing and quote wikipedia (which is always accurate to the letter, just like the King James Bible):
"Marty carries a snapshot of himself with his sister and brother, and 1955 Doc Brown discovers they are fading out, first Dave, the oldest, then Linda. Marty finds himself stranded, not having brought any additional plutonium back with him. The plutonium is used to create the "1.21 gigawatts" of electricity used to power the flux capacitor. Doc explains that only a bolt of lightning has the sufficient power required. Marty was given a fundraising flyer from 1985 that recounts the story of how the town's clock tower was to be struck by lightning the following Saturday in 1955."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_the_future
Per the rules:
:D
"Slalom Section: Vehicle must traverse 30.5 meters (100 feet) slalom section in less than 15 seconds."
They're using a lawnmower engine that can do up to 3600 RPM, 4 cycle. (4 cylinders then?)
Also, section 40.1:
"Minimum and Maximum Speed Requirement
The performance run will consist of each vehicle running six laps around a 2.6 km (1.6 mile) oval test track. The vehicle must achieve a minimum six lap average speed of 24 km/hr (15 mph)."
So there you have it. It has to go at least as fast as someone could bike.
"This means that each vehicle will be required to travel a total distance of 15.5 km (9.6 miles) in a maximum of 38.4 minutes. The vehicle must not exceed a single lap average speed of 25 mph."
WTF???? This I don't get. I guess they're wanting the entrants to not somehow burst on a lap to alter typical performance?
So whatever the case, these vehicles, per the rules, cannot do more than 25 mph. That sucks.
I'm wondering why noone has thought to use alcohol to cool instead of water, or even mineral oil.
There are safer things than water to use.
(Wait, alcohol is combustable. Oops. Oh well, he didn't want his house anyway...)
Definitely not slashdot, and definitely not the submitter.
:D
;)
Here's the deal:
"better then current methods..."
Hrrm. The guy is a programmer, right?
Now, would you hire a coder that doesn't know the difference between and "if, then, else" and "greater THAN" "less THAN" "less THAN or equal to"?
Sorry, I had to do it. He's making a comparison that he probably does all day coding, and would have failed it.
You fail it man, you fail it.
and no printer-friendly version to read as a normal non-ad-infested article. :(
So sad. Seems most sites are dropping "printer-friendly" as people are wising up and reading that instead of the click-ad-click-ad-click-ad versions.
Actually, it translates to "the lameness filter thinks I used too many caps, so I had to type something else in order to get the post to submit". :P
That, and I'm going to sit and frantically reload slashdot, but hey...