Robocopy is one of the best MS command line utility around (I guess it had different programmers than EdLin). I use it all the time for backups. It's easy to script (copy only files that have changed on whole disk, excluding some directories, excluding.bak files... and plenty more options). It does come with some versions of Windows or power packs, otherwise you need to track down the download page on MS website. And unlike copy, xcopy and such, it can copy UNC (\\network) paths. And it's regularly updated too.
Shipping to Antarctica is basically the same as shipping to NZ / Australia / South America if you use the normal post office. It then gets carried by the relevant polar organization onto the final destination. Of course a dead server case might raise suspicion, although if the fans are working it might be worth it: when I was last there during the winter 3 out of 4 of my stash of backup drives died out and almost all my fans on tens of boxes. Power outages that drop the temperature by a hundred celcius in matter of minutes and low air pressure at altitude are not sweet on those two pieces of hardware
There's a french town that should be suing for breach of copyright ! Well, if it could help get rid of stupid dumb blondes in the news, I'd be all for it too. Hell, it took 35+ years for the region of Champagne to manage to win their lawsuit against californian sparkling wine producers. The longest running lawsuit in history.
Last months I was at a meeting for european Linux admins and a guest speaker was a patent expert. Apparently he must have missed a memo because he started his pitch with "we are looking for experts such as yourself to come work with us on software patents as they are going to happen in Europe soon"... Amusing mayhem ensued. But what striked me most are two things:
out of 80 admins only 3 were vocal about the issues surrounding software patents. Okay, we were very vocal. But the others didn't seem to have a clue.
the next day the guy came up to us 3 specifically with a $trong recruiting pitch, saying that since we already knew the subject we had to come and work with him as there would be now way to avoid software patents anyway. I countered by saying that when China will decide that any patent is meaningless, then all bets would be off. But he countered that one by saying that China is the fastest growing market for patents on the planet...
Interesting discussion anyway, even though I find the mix of lack of morality and the excess of $ deeply disturbing. Call me an idealist and cry me a river.
Hmmm, reminds me of a different way to arrive at the same objective. Years ago, when I was a beginning climber many years ago we climbed a long classic route called Ula in the Verdon (France). While we were on it we got passed by two old timers who were cruising up. They weren't even belaying each others but, unlike us, they were wearing helmets. As they passed, one told us that we should be wearing them as well: he removed his and showed us a caved in hole as big as a fist inside his skull. 'Rock', he just said and disappeared up...
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...hmmm, not mine ! The only story I ever submitted was about the very first winterover at Dome C, on the high Antarctic Plateau. Since I was rith there in the middle of Antarctica at the time, I didn't want to have to deal with a crashed server 10000 miles away through a shitty satlink, so I submitted the story with coral links. It made front page news on slashdot... and the log hardly even registered a blimp ! To this day I have no idea how many people read it, and I wizened up and put advertisement on the page only 6 months later !!!
I have at home some old wine glasses used in some bars 100~150 years ago. The glass gets much thicker towards the bottom and if you look at a full glass it acts like a magnifier: all the glass appears to be wine. But then you finish your wine in less than half the gulps you'd expect... A neat trick.
When people receive fairly large amounts of money for doing nothing, they have little incentive for improving their technical skills While I agree with most of what you wrote, I don't think that quote rings true. The counter example I can think of is Alaska: residents receive money from the oil as well and some even manage to live off of it. Yes, it's somewhat backwards, but in a good sense (as in 'let's go there for vacation') and quite as advanced to the rest of the US when it comes to education, quality of universities an overall intelligence of its inhabitants.
In the case of the article being discussed, I really do think that the difference of culture is the root cause. While at a university party 20 years ago, a student in biochemistry from a moslem country (you wouldn't call that an uneducated idiot), said point-blank: "how do yo uwant us to respect a country where women sing ?". That pretty much forged my opinion on that religion on that day. A low one indeed.
Imagining the Athens of Pericles and Aristotle obliterated by a nuclear weapon It is indeed more or less what happened. Right at that time (430BCE, the height of greek civilization) there was a war between Athens and Sparta known as the Peloponnesian war. Athens was hit by several waves of plague which killed most of its elite (including Pericles). It never recovered, went into decline and was easily conquered by Alexander a century later.
I suggested better than this a long time ago: use the IE/Firefox rendering engine completely, and feed the resulting image to an OCR program. This way, anything written on white_on_white, font=1, display:none and other tricks get ignored. Then compare the results. Ditch the site if there's too much difference.
I'll take you on that. We are preparing to hire someone for a year in a nuclear research facility in an IT job. Position not fully defined yet (either sysadmin or embedded). In Grenoble. C;-)
I worked in Antarctica where we drilled a 3.2km deep hole to recover old ice for various climatology and glaciology projects. The ice cores we pull out are named 'carrots'. There were plenty of phone interviews when the bedrock was reached after 10 years of work. Title from the italian newspaper Corriere della Serra:
"Million year old frozen carrots discovered 3km deep under the Antarctic ice." And in the words of Scott Adams (of Dilbert fame):
"Science is a good thing. News reporters are good things too. But it's never a good idea to put them in the same room."
right now I can't see one feature that I want There's only one feature of Vista I would want: the ability to change language on the user interface on the fly (or is it by user) ? I support friends and family PCs in 3 languages and that's a feature I'd use every day. I don't think it's even possible in any of the Linux distros I know, or is it ?
I remember years ago trying to reinstal Win2K english over Win2K italian or somesuch to try to find a way to have a multiple language config. Ended up in a bloody mess.
I love being from and living in the USA, but christ we have NO tatse in beer We'll, I'll defend the US on that one. I used to think the same 20 years ago during my first trips there. But nowadays there are plenty of truly excellent microbreweries. It took me more than a year to work my way through all the choices at my local Colorado liquor store, with at least half of them earning at least a 'very good' score. No siree, I think the US indeed has the best beer in the world nowadays, where previously it was a tie between britain and belgium. You just need to stay clear of commercials for industrial piss. My take on advertisement is that if it needs to be advertised, it's shit.
A little bit offtopic, but about the Dune prequels, I read the first one that came out and had to force myself to finish it. Never read the others. Awful stuff. Then I heard about the new sequel by the same two 'writers', supposedly based on good notes by Frank. Is that any better and worth reading ? I though the original Dune series ended with a nice if mysterious wrap-up. Some kind of liberation of the characters by their author into the world at large. Not sure if I want this spoiled...
If you've never handled a bunch of cash someone else gave you, how can I trust you'll be good with mine? If it was only about this, then it should be enough to show your monthly salary ('cash someone else gives you') and that you have no outstanding debt. QED. And it's exactly how it works in europe: there's no such thing as this credit reporting bureau bullshit. You are right, they want to squeeze you like a lemon, and not necessarily make sure you can pay back your loan properly. Otherwise why would they offer things like 2nd or 3rd mortgage ? After you fail payment, they move in, grab the loot and make even more this way. Or that's the way I understand it and I stay away from those guys at all costs.
The way the US loan system works has always seemed absurd to me: it's easier to get a loan if you have always been in debt than if you have always have a clean debt-free life. Doesn't make any sense.
Things go hand in hand. If the OS is free/open, odds are that lots of software under it will be also. If you have to shell 10 grands for the OS (as for some versions of real-time or embedded OSes), you can be sure that the simplest 3rd party library/software will be payware.
What kind of soulless bastard needs a written code of ethics to know what's right and wrong? I think it applies to religious freaks. You know the kind... those that think that atheists have no morals because they don't have 'god given' rules to follow.
But back to sysadmin rules, ever since starting in the field, I've heard it said that it's the same as when you are a doctor or a lawyer: you keep what you hear for yourself, unless it's truly important. Unlike priests who also keep the kiddie porn for themselves.
I know it's been my job for the last 15 years, but still, it's nice when you find, say, a GPL'd FFT library or other useful tools and not have to shell 10 grands for it. If you use Linux as an embedded OS you have more than plenty of choice for tools, libs, etc. No such thing for QNX as closed source draws only commercial apps in its wake.
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Robocopy is one of the best MS command line utility around (I guess it had different programmers than EdLin). I use it all the time for backups. It's easy to script (copy only files that have changed on whole disk, excluding some directories, excluding .bak files... and plenty more options). It does come with some versions of Windows or power packs, otherwise you need to track down the download page on MS website. And unlike copy, xcopy and such, it can copy UNC (\\network) paths. And it's regularly updated too.
Shipping to Antarctica is basically the same as shipping to NZ / Australia / South America if you use the normal post office. It then gets carried by the relevant polar organization onto the final destination. Of course a dead server case might raise suspicion, although if the fans are working it might be worth it: when I was last there during the winter 3 out of 4 of my stash of backup drives died out and almost all my fans on tens of boxes. Power outages that drop the temperature by a hundred celcius in matter of minutes and low air pressure at altitude are not sweet on those two pieces of hardware
There's a french town that should be suing for breach of copyright ! Well, if it could help get rid of stupid dumb blondes in the news, I'd be all for it too. Hell, it took 35+ years for the region of Champagne to manage to win their lawsuit against californian sparkling wine producers. The longest running lawsuit in history.
Interesting discussion anyway, even though I find the mix of lack of morality and the excess of $ deeply disturbing. Call me an idealist and cry me a river.
Hmmm, reminds me of a different way to arrive at the same objective. Years ago, when I was a beginning climber many years ago we climbed a long classic route called Ula in the Verdon (France). While we were on it we got passed by two old timers who were cruising up. They weren't even belaying each others but, unlike us, they were wearing helmets. As they passed, one told us that we should be wearing them as well: he removed his and showed us a caved in hole as big as a fist inside his skull. 'Rock', he just said and disappeared up...
...hmmm, not mine ! The only story I ever submitted was about the very first winterover at Dome C, on the high Antarctic Plateau. Since I was rith there in the middle of Antarctica at the time, I didn't want to have to deal with a crashed server 10000 miles away through a shitty satlink, so I submitted the story with coral links. It made front page news on slashdot... and the log hardly even registered a blimp ! To this day I have no idea how many people read it, and I wizened up and put advertisement on the page only 6 months later !!!
I have at home some old wine glasses used in some bars 100~150 years ago. The glass gets much thicker towards the bottom and if you look at a full glass it acts like a magnifier: all the glass appears to be wine. But then you finish your wine in less than half the gulps you'd expect... A neat trick.
In the case of the article being discussed, I really do think that the difference of culture is the root cause. While at a university party 20 years ago, a student in biochemistry from a moslem country (you wouldn't call that an uneducated idiot), said point-blank: "how do yo uwant us to respect a country where women sing ?". That pretty much forged my opinion on that religion on that day. A low one indeed.
I suggested better than this a long time ago: use the IE/Firefox rendering engine completely, and feed the resulting image to an OCR program. This way, anything written on white_on_white, font=1, display:none and other tricks get ignored. Then compare the results. Ditch the site if there's too much difference.
I'll take you on that. We are preparing to hire someone for a year in a nuclear research facility in an IT job. Position not fully defined yet (either sysadmin or embedded). In Grenoble. C;-)
Through Amazon I bought some baby items as a gift for friends who just had babies. Big mistake as far as targetted advertising goes...
A little bit offtopic, but about the Dune prequels, I read the first one that came out and had to force myself to finish it. Never read the others. Awful stuff. Then I heard about the new sequel by the same two 'writers', supposedly based on good notes by Frank. Is that any better and worth reading ? I though the original Dune series ended with a nice if mysterious wrap-up. Some kind of liberation of the characters by their author into the world at large. Not sure if I want this spoiled...
Or like this...
The way the US loan system works has always seemed absurd to me: it's easier to get a loan if you have always been in debt than if you have always have a clean debt-free life. Doesn't make any sense.
Things go hand in hand. If the OS is free/open, odds are that lots of software under it will be also. If you have to shell 10 grands for the OS (as for some versions of real-time or embedded OSes), you can be sure that the simplest 3rd party library/software will be payware.
But back to sysadmin rules, ever since starting in the field, I've heard it said that it's the same as when you are a doctor or a lawyer: you keep what you hear for yourself, unless it's truly important. Unlike priests who also keep the kiddie porn for themselves.
I know it's been my job for the last 15 years, but still, it's nice when you find, say, a GPL'd FFT library or other useful tools and not have to shell 10 grands for it. If you use Linux as an embedded OS you have more than plenty of choice for tools, libs, etc. No such thing for QNX as closed source draws only commercial apps in its wake.
That's Achille's choice, dating back to, oh, about 3 millennia...
I knew there must have been a catch in there. Hah, back to reading Hallinan's Embedded Linux Primer...