For the east coast the peak will be the morning of the 19th from about 4 or 5 o'clock local time until the sunrise is bright enough to block all but the biggest ones. CHeck out your local forcast
He had some far fetched ideas about completely tossing the desktop out of the window
Ah, he must be running Windows 95/98!
you only say his ideas are far-fetched because you run linux and don't know the power of The Force(1)
The Force(c)(tm), that evil scourge across the earth know only as....BSOD
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I've heard that certian programs (CoolEdit pro for one) break (as in, don't work right anymore) after running a ghost restore. Apparently there's some sort of copy protection that doesn't like to be moved around - even though it's the same drive on the same machine. Bummer!
Eventually we'll be able to send nanobots to Saturn's moon at which point the bots can reconstruct whatever we want.
Of course NASA will fail to run a virus scan before launch and we'll end up with a huge robot the size of Saturn's moon heading towards earth for its next meal.
Nah, that's the just the Microsoft bug fix of the week
(and what a bug fix it would be; squashing flat every computer with windows 3005(tm)(c) installed, and breaking every single install CD)
you can't see the stars for the same reason you can't see them during the day - there's a light source that's too bright; in this case it's Saturn. When the on-board camera's flash went off, it washed out all of the stars in the background. The flash was needed because the picture was taken at night (after the sun got turned off for the evening) and the phosphorous material on Saturn's surface only glows in the dark for half an hour after the sun goes out, just like many glow-in-the-dark children's toys.
(other responses have more correctly attributed the cause, but I had to add my $0.02)
I've seen a few posts that state that people should use another method like HTTP or FTP, but that doesn't save space on the server any better than sending through e-mail
I think the point to this was that personal items (baby pictures, grandma goes to the disco for her 95th birthday.mov, etc) (sent or recieved during work time) would be put on personal servers rather than work servers, moving the responsibility to keep lots of free disk space from the work admins to whoever is sending the pictures/their home computer/their ISP.
have we any idea what prompted the move? I can't imagine it was for a bigger pipe; and previously (according to the FAQ) the techs were within a short drive of the facility...so now are there new network/db techs or has everyone moved, or as a third option; when there's trouble does CowboyNeal flap his wings and everyone hold on for the ride across the country?
okay; mybad...I just did a really quick google search and didn't bother to verify my results...the offending site
A more correct answer (derived from your numbers) would be 61.01132370167903162827020695041, or more like "about $61.01". Again, I appoligize for the error.
That's why I have to reboot my Win2K workstation every week to keep the performance up to an acceptible level, and my linux/BSD workstations are known for having multiple week uptimes and feeling just as fast, if not faster as tiem goes on.
Funny you should mention this. Not related to performance exactly; but my w2k machine recently (within a week) started to crash (explorer dies and takes most other programs with it; I can't launch anything new...pretty much all I can do is a semi-graceful reboot). I haven't installed any new applications in a while; the only thing I did was run windowsupdate a few days before (not sure if it's related; but it could be. windowsupdate hosed my w98 box big time). Anyway; just a pointless rant about how unstable w2k is...
And (go get back to your comment) I agree with what you've said about the memory leaks and other problems associated with keeping a w2k box running continually. The 4 or 5 days uptime I have are much better than the
just make sure you put "site:slashdot.org" in the search box. A query could be
site:slashdot.org windows sucks dood
but of course, that would return a hit for every discussion on the site and is intended as an example only.
Those Apple IIs were unstoppable. Where I worked this past summer (my old school district) we still had a few sitting around...hadn't been cleaned for a while - had no dust in them (G3s, on the other hand...more dust than one could imagine) and fired up perfectly. The mac Classics ran like a charm too....LCs were pretty good but there were problems with hard drives sticking if left off for too long....
I don't know about cell phones (because they operate on different frequencies and are under a different set of rules and regulations), but amateur radio operators are prohibited from using their equipment when an aircraft is operating under instrument flight rules (unless the equipment is FAA approved) (reference), and generally prohibited amongst the large commercial airlines (by the airlines themselves, not by the FAA or FCC).
With that said; I do agree that at least part of the problem is created by the fact that at a mile up; you can cover a huge area (I'm sure someone knows how to compute this).
The other advantage to AIM is that the usernames are letters - ICQ UINs are just that - Numbers (get it? UIN=Number....never mind me - long day, easily amused, etc...) Anyway; with ICQ all that needs to be done is this:
for (i=0; i99999999; i++) {
spam(i); }
whereas the permutations and combinations of AIM Screen Names causes there to be much more difficulty finding one that is an actual user. Plus ICQ has (had?) the email gateway; email to 56389563489@icq.net or something went directly to that user's ICQ popup. Cool feature...but useful for spammers, too:-/
I don't want long warranties. I won't want fast RMA turn around times. I want a drive that isn't going to fail on me. That's all. I'll pay a few bucks extra for this.
That said; a 3-5 year warranty proves the manufacturer has faith in their line of drives, and again would be worth a few extra dollars. But if I need to RMA a drive while it's under a 1 or 2 year warrenty, there's a problem!
just my two cents...and that's probably all it's worth...
It's being said in various ways in response to this, and I agree... wireless will never completely take over for wired solutions. In some places (top of a mountian with my laptop and handheld ham radio, or the article's mention of West Africa) it's better and easier than wires; in others (wireless phones) you can tunnel additional information on a single type of connection...but there are a few reasons wireless isn't going to take over.
Speed: Generally speed isn't very good on wireless connections. Show me how to get 100megs/sec out of any common wireless connection. This is the wired standard - but you need the bandwidth in wireless connections, and that leads nicely in to my next point:
Bandwidth: Anything wireless needs bandwidth. Generally faster means more data which means more bandwidth. There is a finite amount of bandwidth. It's pretty much maxed out already (In the US at least; there's lots of military applications, broadcast TV takes a chunk, radio, the ham bands, cell phones, satellite signals, radio astronomy...etc). There's only so much usable spectrum. To put it another way; what happens when your entire city/company/neighborhood/household runs on one connection (t3/t1/cable/dsl respectivly, just for the example)? you oversaturate the avalible bandwidth. Same thing would happen with wireless. If the entire country starts using HF bands for email; your avalible connection speed is going to be shared across thousands of connections...making checking your email a pain in the rear.
Cost: Look at the cost of a wireless NIC compared to a wired NIC of the same approximate bandwidth capabilites. Do they even make 10meg cat5 NICs anymore? 10/100 seems to be the standard, and even that is cheaper than a wireless card that only can do 11 megs at it's peak.
There are more but I'm tired of typing...just got back to the room after a long day in the rain. Message me or reply if you have questions or comments. Feedback is welcome!
unfortuantly I know PHP won't fly and probably not perl, too...because they're free and free isn't as secure as the ASP equivilant. PHP's been shot down before and I would assume Perl would meet similar feedback but haven't inquired about this.
Odd how this method of thinking contrasts the message board/calendar/public+private chat/file sharing area we're working on which ideally won't cost anything to implement...
Hey, thanks for the links. I'm looking in to the webwiz one especially. I hadn't found it before and it's looking pretty good. I'm not the one who's heading up the hunt for a message board, I'm actually working on a calendar - sort of like the outlook calendar + exchange - scheduling meetings, event notification, etc. But more customized than any outlook calendar I've ever seen. My point being that I can't answer your questions about what we're looking for. I know it has to run on SQL server (many of the tutorials I've found run on access only), and has to be something we're able to modify (many of the licenses I've seen don't allow for code modification. I found a perfect board system but it wouldn't allow us to change anything...)
One wonders if there is really a community of MS developers older than 13 years old who would give away thier software anyway.
Tell me about it. I'm searching for some code, mostly asp to do various database tasks including a message board and calendar. I've found several perl/php/linux/free solutions that work perfectly; but unfortunatly I'm restricted to using w2k and php is out because it's free and free!=secure. All the asp stuff I've found both costs money and isn't quite what I need. It's really frustrating, because it means I need to start from scratch in a language that I don't know. Speaking of which I find the MS support/tutorials/documentation on the web to suck. They're not complete, not helpful, and most often out dated. 9 times out of 10 I can't even find a tutorial for what I want to do, when I do; it doesn't do a good job of teaching me. Try the documentation at http://www.php.net - that's so real documentation.
I agree that kernel compiles aren't very plesant. I tried to do this - not once but twice - to get my scroll wheel mouse working, this was a year or two ago under RedHat...I never did get the kernel options right and just gave up on having a scroll wheel under linux. I understand that kernel modules are being used in some cases to get around this but don't know as much about using them as I should. I don't mind having to install something; I don't mind having to download something - but recompiling the kernel to get my mouse scroll wheel working is definatly not, as you say, for Mom and Pop to be using. They have enough trouble using windows ME...
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For the east coast the peak will be the morning of the 19th from about 4 or 5 o'clock local time until the sunrise is bright enough to block all but the biggest ones. CHeck out your local forcast
He had some far fetched ideas about completely tossing the desktop out of the window
Ah, he must be running Windows 95/98!
you only say his ideas are far-fetched because you run linux and don't know the power of The Force(1)
The Force(c)(tm), that evil scourge across the earth know only as....BSOD
I've heard that certian programs (CoolEdit pro for one) break (as in, don't work right anymore) after running a ghost restore. Apparently there's some sort of copy protection that doesn't like to be moved around - even though it's the same drive on the same machine. Bummer!
Eventually we'll be able to send nanobots to Saturn's moon at which point the bots can reconstruct whatever we want.
Of course NASA will fail to run a virus scan before launch and we'll end up with a huge robot the size of Saturn's moon heading towards earth for its next meal.
Nah, that's the just the Microsoft bug fix of the week
(and what a bug fix it would be; squashing flat every computer with windows 3005(tm)(c) installed, and breaking every single install CD)
you can't see the stars for the same reason you can't see them during the day - there's a light source that's too bright; in this case it's Saturn. When the on-board camera's flash went off, it washed out all of the stars in the background. The flash was needed because the picture was taken at night (after the sun got turned off for the evening) and the phosphorous material on Saturn's surface only glows in the dark for half an hour after the sun goes out, just like many glow-in-the-dark children's toys.
(other responses have more correctly attributed the cause, but I had to add my $0.02)
I've seen a few posts that state that people should use another method like HTTP or FTP, but that doesn't save space on the server any better than sending through e-mail
I think the point to this was that personal items (baby pictures, grandma goes to the disco for her 95th birthday.mov, etc) (sent or recieved during work time) would be put on personal servers rather than work servers, moving the responsibility to keep lots of free disk space from the work admins to whoever is sending the pictures/their home computer/their ISP.
have we any idea what prompted the move? I can't imagine it was for a bigger pipe; and previously (according to the FAQ) the techs were within a short drive of the facility...so now are there new network/db techs or has everyone moved, or as a third option; when there's trouble does CowboyNeal flap his wings and everyone hold on for the ride across the country?
okay; mybad...I just did a really quick google search and didn't bother to verify my results...the offending site
A more correct answer (derived from your numbers) would be 61.01132370167903162827020695041, or more like "about $61.01". Again, I appoligize for the error.
about $60
That's why I have to reboot my Win2K workstation every week to keep the performance up to an acceptible level, and my linux/BSD workstations are known for having multiple week uptimes and feeling just as fast, if not faster as tiem goes on.
Funny you should mention this. Not related to performance exactly; but my w2k machine recently (within a week) started to crash (explorer dies and takes most other programs with it; I can't launch anything new...pretty much all I can do is a semi-graceful reboot). I haven't installed any new applications in a while; the only thing I did was run windowsupdate a few days before (not sure if it's related; but it could be. windowsupdate hosed my w98 box big time). Anyway; just a pointless rant about how unstable w2k is...
And (go get back to your comment) I agree with what you've said about the memory leaks and other problems associated with keeping a w2k box running continually. The 4 or 5 days uptime I have are much better than the
danged formatting. read that as
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A query could be
site:slashdot.org windows sucks dood
etc, etc...
I always preview. Except tonight. And now I look like an idiot in front of millions of
just make sure you put "site:slashdot.org" in the search box. A query could be site:slashdot.org windows sucks dood but of course, that would return a hit for every discussion on the site and is intended as an example only.
Yeah; once Tux gets on the snow (tuxracer) there's no stopping him. He'd be able to catch up to any silly butterflies.
Those Apple IIs were unstoppable. Where I worked this past summer (my old school district) we still had a few sitting around...hadn't been cleaned for a while - had no dust in them (G3s, on the other hand...more dust than one could imagine) and fired up perfectly. The mac Classics ran like a charm too....LCs were pretty good but there were problems with hard drives sticking if left off for too long....
I don't know about cell phones (because they operate on different frequencies and are under a different set of rules and regulations), but amateur radio operators are prohibited from using their equipment when an aircraft is operating under instrument flight rules (unless the equipment is FAA approved) (reference), and generally prohibited amongst the large commercial airlines (by the airlines themselves, not by the FAA or FCC).
With that said; I do agree that at least part of the problem is created by the fact that at a mile up; you can cover a huge area (I'm sure someone knows how to compute this).
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The other advantage to AIM is that the usernames are letters - ICQ UINs are just that - Numbers (get it? UIN=Number....never mind me - long day, easily amused, etc...) Anyway; with ICQ all that needs to be done is this:
:-/
for (i=0; i99999999; i++)
{
spam(i);
}
whereas the permutations and combinations of AIM Screen Names causes there to be much more difficulty finding one that is an actual user. Plus ICQ has (had?) the email gateway; email to 56389563489@icq.net or something went directly to that user's ICQ popup. Cool feature...but useful for spammers, too
I don't want long warranties. I won't want fast RMA turn around times. I want a drive that isn't going to fail on me. That's all. I'll pay a few bucks extra for this.
That said; a 3-5 year warranty proves the manufacturer has faith in their line of drives, and again would be worth a few extra dollars. But if I need to RMA a drive while it's under a 1 or 2 year warrenty, there's a problem!
just my two cents...and that's probably all it's worth...
The programmable logic controller's hosed. all in meant good fun.... ;-)
It's being said in various ways in response to this, and I agree... wireless will never completely take over for wired solutions. In some places (top of a mountian with my laptop and handheld ham radio, or the article's mention of West Africa) it's better and easier than wires; in others (wireless phones) you can tunnel additional information on a single type of connection...but there are a few reasons wireless isn't going to take over.
Speed: Generally speed isn't very good on wireless connections. Show me how to get 100megs/sec out of any common wireless connection. This is the wired standard - but you need the bandwidth in wireless connections, and that leads nicely in to my next point:
Bandwidth: Anything wireless needs bandwidth. Generally faster means more data which means more bandwidth. There is a finite amount of bandwidth. It's pretty much maxed out already (In the US at least; there's lots of military applications, broadcast TV takes a chunk, radio, the ham bands, cell phones, satellite signals, radio astronomy...etc). There's only so much usable spectrum. To put it another way; what happens when your entire city/company/neighborhood/household runs on one connection (t3/t1/cable/dsl respectivly, just for the example)? you oversaturate the avalible bandwidth. Same thing would happen with wireless. If the entire country starts using HF bands for email; your avalible connection speed is going to be shared across thousands of connections...making checking your email a pain in the rear.
Cost: Look at the cost of a wireless NIC compared to a wired NIC of the same approximate bandwidth capabilites. Do they even make 10meg cat5 NICs anymore? 10/100 seems to be the standard, and even that is cheaper than a wireless card that only can do 11 megs at it's peak.
There are more but I'm tired of typing...just got back to the room after a long day in the rain. Message me or reply if you have questions or comments. Feedback is welcome!
unfortuantly I know PHP won't fly and probably not perl, too...because they're free and free isn't as secure as the ASP equivilant. PHP's been shot down before and I would assume Perl would meet similar feedback but haven't inquired about this.
Odd how this method of thinking contrasts the message board/calendar/public+private chat/file sharing area we're working on which ideally won't cost anything to implement...
Hey, thanks for the links. I'm looking in to the webwiz one especially. I hadn't found it before and it's looking pretty good. I'm not the one who's heading up the hunt for a message board, I'm actually working on a calendar - sort of like the outlook calendar + exchange - scheduling meetings, event notification, etc. But more customized than any outlook calendar I've ever seen. My point being that I can't answer your questions about what we're looking for. I know it has to run on SQL server (many of the tutorials I've found run on access only), and has to be something we're able to modify (many of the licenses I've seen don't allow for code modification. I found a perfect board system but it wouldn't allow us to change anything...)
thanks for your links, I'll pass them on.
One wonders if there is really a community of MS developers older than 13 years old who would give away thier software anyway.
Tell me about it. I'm searching for some code, mostly asp to do various database tasks including a message board and calendar. I've found several perl/php/linux/free solutions that work perfectly; but unfortunatly I'm restricted to using w2k and php is out because it's free and free!=secure. All the asp stuff I've found both costs money and isn't quite what I need. It's really frustrating, because it means I need to start from scratch in a language that I don't know. Speaking of which I find the MS support/tutorials/documentation on the web to suck. They're not complete, not helpful, and most often out dated. 9 times out of 10 I can't even find a tutorial for what I want to do, when I do; it doesn't do a good job of teaching me. Try the documentation at http://www.php.net - that's so real documentation.
From what I hear, I'm sure VeriSign will be happy to continue to send you reminders even though you're registered elsewhere.
I agree that kernel compiles aren't very plesant. I tried to do this - not once but twice - to get my scroll wheel mouse working, this was a year or two ago under RedHat...I never did get the kernel options right and just gave up on having a scroll wheel under linux. I understand that kernel modules are being used in some cases to get around this but don't know as much about using them as I should. I don't mind having to install something; I don't mind having to download something - but recompiling the kernel to get my mouse scroll wheel working is definatly not, as you say, for Mom and Pop to be using. They have enough trouble using windows ME...